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PITTSFIELD â€” A trio of councilors is taking a crack at dealing with one of the city’s perennial issues â€” curbside trash collections. A new ordinance proposed by Councilors Peter Marchetti, Pete White and Earl Persip III would place the city’s trash pickup under a bag-based “pay-as-you-throw” system. If the ordinance is approved, residents would be required to place their garbage inside an official trash bag, either in or out of barrels, before it can be removed by haulers. Residents would receive coupons that would allow them to purchase two 15-gallon bags per ...

Food waste is a fact of life. Also a fact is that it’s smelly, wet and heavy. It makes a mess out of the rest of the trash and is generally nasty. Getting food waste out of the trash may also provide the key to how Connecticut repairs the dated, expensive, fragmented and environmentally fraught waste systems in the state. But the question is whether it makes more sense to get the food out of the waste stream first or whether other parts of the system get fixed first so the food part follows. It’s a chicken-egg problem, and which comes first isn’t clear. What is clear, officials say, is ...