Pay-As You-Throw Garbage Plans Grow Across the U.S. (VIDEO)
April 22, 2021 Charging people by how much garbage they send to the landfill can reduce waste by up to 20%. SHOW TRANSCRIPT Humans are wasteful. Take Columbia, Missouri. It’s estimated each household produces 2,000 pounds of trash per year… which comes out to 35,000 tons annually for this college town — and that's just residential curbside customers. To lighten the load… Columbia started a "pay-as-you-throw" program in February, which encourages residents to throw away less through a price plan that varies per household. "Before we made the changes we did last fall, there was no...
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