New Haven receives a 3.3 million dollar grant this week for composting. The city plans to create a co-collection facility which processes organic waste and food scraps. The initiative aimed towards reducing landfill use and to convert waste into compost. The facility will be complete in 2027 when residents will be educated on composting and disposing food scraps into color coded bags to be easily converted. These food scraps account for at least 20-25 percent of the waste stream. This is a great effort by the city of New Haven to reduce overall waste.

Amid ‘waste crisis,’ New Haven gets $3.3M from state for composting