Rima Grace
speaker
3,013 appearances
32 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Rima Grace’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when it ends up in landfills, it releases planet-warming gases.
So some states, they're trying to keep organics out of the trash altogether.
In other places, it all still goes in the same bin.
Because even though your trash might be worthless to you, some states make serious money off of it.
Including Ohio, home to Marketplace's Kaylee Wells.
About a dozen states have policies addressing food waste, including composting requirements.
But Ohio is not one of them.
And the city where I live has no food waste program.
So I do it myself in the backyard.
The reason is pretty simple.
Tipping a truckload of trash into a landfill is cheap.
Like, it costs half as much as it does in, say, Massachusetts.
Brian Staley leads the Environmental Research Education Foundation.
He says Ohio's got more land and fewer people.
Conserving landfill space or repurposing trash?
Not major concerns.
It's the same with composting.
It's cost-effective in Massachusetts, where landfills are expensive, but not so much in Ohio.
Sam Crowell is Ohio University's sustainability director, and he worked on a regional composting effort in the small town of Athens, Ohio.
Composting would add to residents' monthly trash bill, so participation ended up being a fraction of what he was hoping for.
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