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A Half Million Pounds Have Been Diverted through Greenwich’s Food Scrap Recycling Program in the past four years (total).

That’s out of 71,360,000 pounds of food scraps were collected and disposed elsewhere by the town during that same period.

Put in perspective, after four years of effort, we’ve managed to divert 0.007% of our wet garbage to compost piles and away from of out-of-state landfills: how much are we paying for this symbolism? And how much CO2 has been spewed by coal-fired Teslas driving banana peels to the dump?

Greenwich compost advocates estimate that food waste comprises 22.3% of the 40,000 tons of garbage Greenwich carts off each year; 17,840,000 lbs. X 4 yrs = 71,360,000 lbs of grapefruit rinds and coffee grounds to be disposed of. 500,000 lbs diverted from the waste stream over 4 years, or 0.007%. Freddie and the Dreamers claim that this is saving the taxpayers great big gobs of money; the numbers say that he and they are just tossing horse chips at us.