Portland's composting program: Break the chains of our weekly trash pickup habit

Oregonian (editorial):

Jon Blumenauer: The fixation on weekly pickups, I believe, boils down to this: We're used to it. That's how we set the system up decades ago, and we've been doing it that way ever since. But Portland's recycling program now diverts significant material from landfills, reducing the need for garbage collection.

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