Bicycle-Based Compost Collection Turns Town Toward Smarter Sanitation

Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 2:32 p.m.
Image via Star TribuneComposting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul, Minn.'s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready for such a program, Sonya Ewert is hopping on a 27-gear bike with a custom-made trailer and going door to door to collect compostables from residents. The bike-powered composting service is part of an experiment -- if enough residents like having


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