Framingham Mayor To Create Composting Task Force

Press release from the City of Framingham:

October 18, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/18/23

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Susan Scully Petroni

City of Framingham Public Information Officer

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Framingham Mayor Signs Executive Order To Create Composting Task Force

FRAMINGHAM – City of Framingham Mayor Charlie Sisitsky signed an executive order yesterday, October 17, to create a Mayoral Food Composting Task Force.

This is the first executive order the Framingham Mayor has issued in 2023.

The order creates a 13-member task force to research and evaluate food composting options for residents in the City of Framingham. The task force will submit recommendations and cost options to the Mayor at a later date.

Food composting could reduce the amount of trash in a landfill and reduce the costs and carbon emissions it takes to haul and process trash.

Food scraps and yard waste currently make up 20 to 30 percent of what Americans throw away About 33% of the food produced worldwide never makes it to the table and ends up as waste, occupying around 25% of our world’s ever-shrinking landfills.

Currently, less than 500 of the City of Framingham’s 31,500 households participate in a private composting program, the City wants to explore options for a more robust composting program within the City

The Task Force will be comprised of 13 members, all to be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Framingham.

Task Force members will include:

• Framingham Department of Public Works Director Bob Lewis
• Framingham Sanitation Operations Manager Darren Guertin
• Framingham Recycling Coordinator Eve Carey
• District 7 City Councilor Leora Mallach
• Chair of the City Council’s Environmental & Sustainability Subcommittee or a member of that subcommittee
• Chair of the School Committee’s Climate Change, Environmental and Sustainability Subcommittee or a member of that subcommittee
• Framingham Public Schools Executive Director of Operations or his designee
• 2 members from Energize Framingham, who live in Framingham, appointed by the Mayor
• 2 residents of the City of Framingham appointed by the Mayor
• 1 member of the Framingham Sustainability Committee, appointed by the Mayor
• 1 member of the Framingham High Environmental Club appointed by the Mayor

The Mayor will provide goals and assignments for the task force at its first meeting. The Mayor also may provide the Task Force a timeline for assignments, as well as a request for a written proposal with a budget to be submitted to the Mayor.

Individuals can now apply to be appointed to the task force. Click here Framingham Mayor Signs Executive Order To Create Composting Task Forceto apply.

The deadline to apply is Friday, November 3.

Appointees to the task force do not require legislative approval.

Under the executive order, the Mayor will appoint the chair and vice chair of the task force. Per the executive order, members of the task force will serve for two years or until the task force is disbanded.

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