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April 22, 2021
Charging people by how much garbage they send to the landfill can reduce waste by up to 20%.
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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 limit to what a customer could put on the curb, Steve Hunt, said. You could literally put your entire contents of your entire house on the curb.