Report: Composting Is Key to Thousands of MD Jobs
A Washington, DC-based think tank led a study of the potential to compost and create jobs in Maryland.
Composting—the practice of diverting biodegradable waste into fertilizer—is all about the numbers. In Maryland, we throw away food scraps, grass clippings, wood chips and the like equal to about 780,000 tons each year. Gathering those scraps and allowing them to naturally combine into a super-potent fertilizer would create two times the number of jobs than simply putting the waste into a landfill. Workers at composting facilities could make up to $20 an hour. All of those numbers are courtesy a report by Institute of Local Self-Reliance, a Washington, DC think tank, Pay Dirt: Composting in Maryland to Reduce Waste, Create Jobs, & Protect the Bay, which broke down why public and private composting programs make sense. And dollars, too. “…
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Ddad99
11:04 am on Monday, May 13, 2013
The likelyhood of me paying anyone $20 for composting is exactly ZERO. I hope we didn't pay this "institute" any money for their stupid report. more ›