The pilot will last six months and collect compost materials from 15 restaurants in Riverside, Avondale and Duval County Public Schools.
The recycling and composting programs were separate issues from the trash fund, Salem said, and composting seemed like a logical next step to take pressure off Jacksonville’s singular landfill.
Restaurants will pay $50 per bin each month, so the amount they pay will increase depending on how many bins they require. The money collected will go to a trust, and at the end of the six months, the total will be divided equally between the city and Sunshine Organics. They do not yet, however, own their own truck to pick up from restaurants. Their goal over the coming months, Christina Kelcourse said, is to “pick up where the city leaves off.”
“Composting is going to be something that we need,” Christina Kelcourse said. “It helps the soil on the back end, it reduces the landfill and methane gas on the front end. It's environmentally positive.”Shannon Blankinship, Executive Director of Riverside Avondale Preservation, believed the area to be a perfect spot for a composting test-run.
Blankinship approved of the city ultimately handing the program to businesses, saying the scale of the consolidated city would keep something like composting from being cost effective city-wide.
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