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Madrid on the way to ‘getting organic waste right’

By 2020 all of Madrid’s 1.6 million households and 3.2 million inhabitants will be sorting their organic waste ready for collection. The stakes are high: if the city succeeds in diverting all their organic waste from landfill, they will avoid CO2 emissions in the region of 2.4 million tonnes each year – the equivalent of taking half a million cars off the road.

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Madrid on the way to ‘getting organic waste right’

By 2020 all of Madrid’s 1.6 million households and 3.2 million inhabitants will be sorting their organic waste ready for collection. The stakes are high: if the city succeeds in diverting all their organic waste from landfill, they will avoid CO2 emissions in the region of 2.4 million tonnes each year – the equivalent of taking half a million cars off the road.

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Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do

WESTFIELD — On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own?

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