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Household food scraps make up a large, costly share of residual municipal waste

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Organic food waste is roughly a third of household residual waste. Mixed with general waste it is heavy, wet and costly to truck and burn. France made household biowaste sorting mandatory in 2024, but curbside bins, routes and treatment add cost that source diversion can avoid.

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#00031 Subsidised laying-hen distribution: give households hens that eat food scraps on site

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#00017 Territoire de la Côte Ouest, La Réunion, FranceSuccess

#00018 SIMER territory, Vienne, FranceSuccess

#00019 Moulins area (SICTOM Nord Allier), Allier, FranceSuccess

#00020 Province of Limburg, BelgiumOngoing

#00021 Opwijk, Flemish Brabant, BelgiumSuccess

#00022 Antwerp, BelgiumOngoing

#00023 Vendée department, FranceSuccess

#00024 SMITOM du Santerre, Somme, FranceSuccess

#00025 SIRMOTOM, Montereau area, Seine-et-Marne, FranceInconclusive

#00026 Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne (Barsac / ValOrizon), Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FranceSuccess

#00027 Pincé, Sarthe, FranceSuccess

#00030 Mantes-en-Yvelines (CAMY), Yvelines, FranceSuccess

#00031 Besançon area (SYBERT), Doubs, FrancePartial

#00032 Pays Haut Val d'Alzette (CCPHVA), Meurthe-et-Moselle, FranceSuccess

#00033 Diest, Flemish Brabant, BelgiumInconclusive

#00034 Mouscron, Hainaut, BelgiumSuccess

#00035 Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, BelgiumSuccess

#00036 Lisses, Essonne, FrancePartial

#00037 Gers department (Trigone), FranceSuccess

#00038 Communauté de communes du Sud Territoire, Territoire de Belfort, FranceSuccess

#00032 Collective and institutional hen coops: shared coops for households without gardens

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#00028 Navailles-Angos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, FranceSuccess

#00029 Villers-les-Pots, Côte-d'Or, FranceSuccess

#00033 Coop rebates and chicken-keeping classes: subsidise resident-owned backyard hens

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#00039 Austin, Texas, USAOngoing

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