By Craig Coker, BioCycle March/April 2016

Contamination of source separated food scraps with noncompostables is a costly proposition — for composting and anaerobic digestion facilities, municipalities and for commercial entities in the food distribution chain. A Washington State-based group of more than 70 municipal officials, composters, regulators, and representatives of various commercial businesses teamed up last year to form an Organics Contamination Reduction Workgroup (OCRW), which is targeting residential single-family and multifamily as well as commercial sources of organics.

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Kimberly-Clark Professional, the US Composting Council (USCC) and Keep America Beautiful have introduced a free Guide to Workplace Composting to help organizations develop workplace composting programs that support sustainability, waste reduction and zero waste initiatives.

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By Jared Paben, Plastics Recycling Update
April 5, 2016

Consumers should leave caps on their empty plastic bottles because when caps are taken off, they often fall through screens, contaminating glass cullet streams. Bottles without caps are also more likely to be flattened and sorted incorrectly.

Those are a few conclusions from a report examining the top 15 packaging challenges at materials recovery facilities (MRFs). Released in late March, the analysis was conducted by Pac Next, part of the industry-funded Pac Packaging Consortium.

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