Metro wants to transform how the Portland area handles food waste, converting our chicken bones, melon rinds and other food scraps into renewable energy instead of burying them in an Eastern Oregon landfill.
To accomplish that, Metro is fashioning new mandates on businesses and local governments to require separate collection of food scraps, culminating in an eventual ban on sending food waste to the landfill. The regional government, responsible for the Portland area's solid waste system, also is soliciting a private company to build a plant that breaks down food waste and turns it into biogas or electricity, or perhaps compost.
Read more on the Portland Tribune website