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For CT's environmental agency, Zoom was 'the real hero' of the pandemic


For CT s environmental agency, Zoom was the real hero of the pandemic
Jan Ellen Spiegel, CTMirror.org
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Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, on one of many recent Zoom calls.CTMirror.org
Katie Dykes, Connecticut’s commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, can tell you precisely how much time she’s spent on Zoom meetings since the pandemic stay-at-home orders were issued in March 2020.
“A lot. A lot.” And then she laughs a lot.
It became a common sight Dykes Zooming away in what in normal times was her three kids’ playroom that she’d co-opted as a home office. ....

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Food could hold the key to fixing the state's waste disposal problems


Tyler Skrzypiec empties a filled food waste basket for a resident customer. Blue Earth Compost was started in 2013 in West Hartford with a goal to recycle food waste into soil that can fertilize plants, as opposed to throwing away in a landfill or incinerator. (Cloe Poisson, CTMirror.org)
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. ....

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Food could hold the key to fixing the state's waste disposal problems


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 that food waste cannot be ignored any longer. ....

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