Beverly Gets $20,000 for New Curbside Composting Program

The Garden City just got a little more green. Early this month, the Beverly Solid Waste Management Committee received a $20,000 grant to start a curbside composting program for Beverly residents.

The money, granted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, will purchase up to 500 wheeled composting carts for Beverly residents. Residents who participate in the program can toss food waste they’d normally throw in the trash, like coffee grounds and egg shells, into the cart.

The city hopes to pilot the program in September 2015. They need up to 500 homes to volunteer to participate in the program and are asking interested residents to complete a survey.

Beverly, many may be surprised to know, is currently behind surrounding areas in waste reduction efforts, the Solid Waste Management Committee said on its official Facebook page, Beverly Recycles.

But the future of waste management in the city looks good, due in part to the city’s composting efforts.

“Thanks to recent efforts by the SWMC, and the schools, a recent presentation by school committee member Lorinda Visnick, and astonishing amount of leg work by Estelle Rand, some very important conversations about waste reduction have begun in our city,” the Beverly Recycles page said.

Also read: Massachusetts on Track for Sustainable Transportation

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