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The Food Waste Bins that Never Showed
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The Food Waste Bins that Never Showed
As of the start of this year, the city of San Diego, like cities throughout California, was supposed to dramatically cut down on the amount of food waste that ends up in landfills by launching a new service that collects food waste from households. This would mean each of us would be setting out a food waste bin alongside our trash and recycling bins.Get more news about waste bin,you can vist our website!
It turns out, the city is now hoping to roll out that service at the start of next year. Better late than never, especially when there’s no indication the state is upset over the blown deadline. If only our editors could be so forgiving.
Our MacKenzie Elmer checked back into the status with the city’s unlaunched food waste collection program in a new story. The city has bought new trucks and hired new truck drivers in anticipation of getting the new program up and running, but still has a few more months at least before it could start. The city of Chula Vista, for its part, has already launched its service, though the smaller city had a smaller lift.
What Ever Happened To: Elmer’s story is the first in a new series we’re rolling out all week. We’re checking in on the stories that were front page news, but have since slipped out of the spotlight. Get ready for some throwbacks.Over the Pod
This week on the VOSD Podcast, Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña discuss the political dynamics of San Diego’s energy companies — one company is offering a lower price and competitors are arguing that the rate is deceptive.The crew also gets into statewide news about electrification. Keatts and Lopez-Villafaña (aka the Andys) share what they learned on a recent trolley ride with the state’s head of transportation, Toks Omishakin. A Superior Court judge on Friday denied an attempt to halt the city’s plan to sell bonds to help fund a buyout of its 101 Ash St. lease that followed a settlement with the city’s former landlord and lenders.
The Union-Tribune notes that while Judge Joel Wohlfeil decided against granting an injunction requested by attorneys representing taxpayer John Gordon, he also wrote in a tentative ruling that “there is a reasonable probability” will prevail in its lawsuit raising constitutional issues.
Former city attorney Mike Aguirre, one of Gordon’s lawyers, cheered the acknowledgement while a spokeswoman for the City Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
The Gordon suit will face another test next month. Lenders behind the Ash deal have asked Wohlfeil to rule on the merits of the case on Sept. 22.