Oceanside is leading the way in San Diego County with a pilot program to send home kitchen scraps such as spoiled fruit and leftover pasta to the compost pile.
About 1,600 households are participating in a two-month trial that, if successful, will be expanded permanently to about 40,000 Oceanside homes in a year or two, city officials said.
The project is driven by state laws requiring cities and counties to reduce the flow of organic waste into landfills, a major source of the air-polluting gas methane.
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