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Kansas City will start turning food waste into compost as area landfills near capacity
In a new partnership with a company that provides high-tech garbage cans that turn food into compost, Kansas City will compost hundreds of thousands of tons of food waste for use on gardens and to grow food. Kansas Citians can now bring their food scraps to one of 50 bins around the city.
In the Southeast Community Center at 4201 E 63rd Street, a crowd of city officials and environmental enthusiasts gather around a small white bin equipped with cutting-edge technology meant to cut back on the city’s food waste that ends of in landfills while also helping local growers.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas dumps the peel of a tangerine into the bin, a symbolic move officially announcing a partnership between the city and the food recycling company Mill. Mill, based in San Bruno, California, is providing the high-tech bins that will break down the food scraps to make them compost ready.
A total of 50 of the food recycling bins will be distributed to community centers, municipal buildings, and fire stations around Kansas City.
