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6. Did you receive enough educational information about collecting food scraps?
Yes—8
No—2
7. What do you think are the most compelling reasons that businesses would have for not participating in
this pilot program?
No time to train staff to sort food scraps—2
Concern about potential odors and mess—6
Concern for contamination in the food scrap cart—1
Cost—7
No space for carts—3
Not wanting to add to their existing work load—1
Additional Comments Received:
On item 7 these are the reasons given to me when I try to recruit new business to the pilot (cost, no space
for carts). It has gone wonderfully for our restaurant.
So far we have had no noticeable obnoxious odors from our food cart. It’s too bad a residential food scrap
collection probably is not logistically possible. I feel guilty not separating food scraps at home.
The program is more expensive than regular garbage! We were going to cancel until we worked
something out. Also, train employees that not all compostable bags are small and green! Overall a very
promising program!
This is a program that makes sense and once businesses are involved they will probably wonder why they
didn’t participate sooner.
The most compelling reasons for schools/business to participate in this program are the environmental and
financial benefits. The monthly fee could be the same as another regular trash pick-up, but you know that
you are reducing the amount of trash sent to the landfills. This is an important message that you can
advertise to your customers, and customers in Davis care about these kinds of things. It might take some
personnel training at the beginning, but in our experience the benefits surpassed the challenges! We
reduced from 2 to 1 trash cans a day, and we have two shifts of 250 people here. We all feel very proud
that we are contributing to reduce the amount of trash sent to the landfills; that the food scraps are being
composted and that means reuse the resources.
Cost was the main reason that we could no longer continue with the program.
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