Solid Waste Composting Council

Compost Facility Planning Guide for Municipal Solid Waste, No 1, The Solid Waste Composting Council, Washington, DC, 1991. 

In 1998, Portland, Oreg., became the first major U.S. city to consider mandatory food waste composting. The proposal recommended to the City Council would require participation by some grocery stores, restaurants, and food processors, but not by individual residents. The city says commercial food waste represents the largest single material in the current solid waste stream, and so it is important to target in attempts to meet the city s 60% recovery goal. ... 

The Boustead report is comprehensive in its evaluation of the LCAs of paper and plastic bags. The Boustead report was funded by the American Chemical Council Plastics Division. The Boustead report compares LCAs of 1500 plastic bags with 1000 paper bags and 1000 compostable plastic bags. The 1.5 1 ratio was determined from a Franklin report from 1990, which pointed out that consumer bagging behavior illustrates that plastic-to-paper use ranged from 1 1 all the way to 3 1, depending on the situation (Council for Solid Waste Solutions 1990). The information for... 

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