{"id":378287,"date":"2026-06-28T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378287\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:38:08","slug":"l-a-s-focus-on-adding-apartments-is-hindering-its-composting-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378287\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A.\u2019s focus on adding apartments is hindering its composting goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: The city of Los Angeles seems to be shooting itself in the foot regarding the composting problem (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-24\/why-your-food-scraps-travel-more-than-100-miles-how-la-council-member-wants-to-stop-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhy your food scraps travel more than 100 miles \u2014 and how an L.A. council member wants to stop it,\u201d<\/a> June 24). Instead of looking to boost compost infrastructure, the city should be concentrating on how to collect more green waste.<\/p>\n<p>While Los Angeles has provided green bins for residents to collect household food waste, the program has not worked as well as anticipated. Not only are those in single-family homes not using the bins enough, but many large apartment buildings are exempt from the green bins since they participate in recycLA. The more single-family houses are replaced by large apartments, the less food waste is collected and the landfills grow bigger.<\/p>\n<p>By allowing for more and larger apartment complexes, the city is hindering its own food-waste goals. Imagine how much green waste could be collected from apartments throughout the city if green bins were placed next to the blue and black ones.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2016, the state has mandated a gradual increase in the amount of organic waste diverted to landfills. By 2025, the city should have achieved that 75% waste be diverted from landfills, but it hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that the city come up with a program to collect food\/green waste from additional sources like apartments, businesses and any other buildings that generate food waste. That goal of 75% will not be reached anytime soon if the city cuts down on houses that use green bins and adds apartments that do not.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Wiser, Van Nuys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: The city of Los Angeles seems to be shooting itself in the foot regarding the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3895,1409,153097,2072,3344,42092,34559,153096,2303,48,52,51,5597,47,50,49,63,153095,5596,4576,153098],"class_list":["post-378287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-apartment","tag-city","tag-composting-goal","tag-editor","tag-focus","tag-food-scrap","tag-green-bin","tag-household-food-waste","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-landfill","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-more-green-waste","tag-organic-waste","tag-program","tag-single-family-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}