Curbside Food Waste Program in Jeopardy

Sustainable Princeton encourages residents to sign up for the Curbside Food Waste Program to send leftovers into a compost pile, not a landfill.

Join by April 1, 2012 or the program may be canceled.

More than 200 homes in Princeton participate in the program, which launched last year, according to Sustainable Princeton In just six months, these residents saved over 60 tons of waste from landfill, equaling $7,500 in municipal trash disposal costs. 

To sign up, contact Janet Pellichero in the Princeton Township Public Works Department at jpellichero@princeton-township.nj.us or 609-688-2566. 

The cost is:

• Township residents: $20 per month for food/organic waste collection. $30 per month for food/organic waste and trash pickup
• Borough residents: $20 per month for food/organic waste collection only (trash pickup will continue to be free of charge)

Participants receive a kitchen collector for food waste, compostable food waste bags and a wheeled container for curbside pickup. Throw food waste and other biodegradeable items (napkins, paper towels, etc.) into a bright green container. Once a week, put the container out at the curb and it will be emptied.