Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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Curbside Composting
Most of America doesn't even have curbside recycling programs, yet San Fransisco has a curbside composting system. In the past 18 years, they have collected more than one million tons of compostable organic waste. This composting program was motivated by over-filled landfills. Both composting and recycling has redirected 78% of San Fransisco's waste from landfills. In Portland with the same program, citizens were producing 30% less trash each month. These cities have also found that it is cheaper composting than it is to dump garbage. By composting and not having to transport trash to the landfills, carbon is also reduced due to decreased transportation. Even the result of composting is positive: a useful fertilizer!
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