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A MANAGER at a large midwestern landfill company has a simple explanation for the reason his firm now operates a composting facility at what used to be strictly a disposal site. "The organics stream is just too large for us to ignore anymore," he notes. Such transformations at landfills and transfer stations have been pushed along by state bans on burying or incinerating "yard trimmings," which include leaves, grass and brush.
At a Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) landfill near Los Angeles, a thorough overhaul is taking place under the leadership of Gary Peterson who started his recycling career a couple of decades ago by bootstrapping a recyclables collection route into a full-fledged company called EcoloHaul (which he sold to Waste Management). A composting program will...