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Article: Zoning may bar compost site proposal
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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EAST BRIDGEWATER - A waste processing company that helped
Nantucket achieve the highest recycling rate in the nation - an
amazing 92 percent - has approached East Bridgewater with a
proposal for a facility that would convert yard and commercial food
waste into high-grade compost.
But local interpretation of the town's zoning for such operations
is presenting a major hurdle that may ultimately bar this project
from moving forward.
Peninsula Compost Group has targeted 8 acres off Franklin
Street, owned by local businessman Jon Ridder, for a facility
where yard and food waste, instead of rotting in a landfill, would
be converted, over eight weeks, into high-quality compost that is ...