Ay As You Throw Programs News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

April 22, 2021
Charging people by how much garbage they send to the landfill can reduce waste by up to 20%.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
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.   ....

United States , Mark Dancy , Steve Hunt , Lisa Skumatz , Zero President , Earthday Newsy , Ay As You Throw Programs , Trash Bags , Roll Carts , Bs News , Mark Dancy , Waste Zero , Lisa Skumatz , மிச Ou ரி , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , ஸ்டீவ் வேட்டை ,