Rail relocation, ongoing talks with The Winston School and housing were among the issues the Del Mar City Council discussed Feb. 13 during its annual goal-setting workshop.
Waves crashed against the bluff in Del Mar last Saturday morning and covered nearly the whole beach, part of the king tide along the California coast on Jan. 21-22.
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The Escondido anaerobic digester will convert organic waste to fertilizer for farms and natural gas for vehicles.
Del Mar doesn t have food waste pickup. But by next year, it will have to. And restaurants, hard hit by the pandemic, are sweating the new costs, from dumpsters to rodent control.
State regulations aimed at keeping organic waste out of landfills, along with the potent methane gas it emits, will require residents and businesses to recycle food scraps, landscape leftovers, non-hazardous wood waste and compostable paper.
The city will have to provide organics collections to all residents and businesses.
The small city now sends 3,200 tons of organic waste to the landfill each year, with yard waste the most prevalent type. But the food portion amounts to 3/4 of a ton of waste per person, not counting the fairgrounds.