Composting - Three Cart Pay-as-you-throw Program

I just moved from Boulder (where we composted) to Indian Peaks and am very bummed that we don’t have composting service. Composting is absolutely necessary for the health of our planet and I 100% support any effort to make a curbside composting service available.

I moved into an HOA neighborhood recently and was shocked to learn that curbside composting isn't offered. I support this effort 100%. It's regressive and wasteful to put organic waste in a landfill.

Would love if composting in Indian Peaks and in Lafayette was available. We support the sustainability efforts for the sake of our environment. Totally support the pay as you throw program

Our family is in big favor of composting in Indian Peaks and in Lafayette. We support the sustainability efforts for the sake of our environment. We are okay with weekly or biweekly composting services.

Our family composted for 16 years in Louisville. After moving to Indian Peaks, we were astonished to find out composting is not done. We are in huge favor of adding composting services to the Indian Peaks neighborhood. It is a great way to save compostable items from going to the landfill and a sustainable practice for our environment.

Please consider WEEKLY pick up for all THREE services. Currently, we constantly have to throw recycling in the regular garbage since we fill our recycling prior to 2nd week pick up. Compost will have an intolerable smell if not picked up weekly. For those of us in HOAs that do now allow trash cans to be stored outside, we wouldn’t take advantage of compost if not a scheduled weekly pick up simply due to smell in our garage - especially in the summer.

This program is substantially more expensive than our current HOA program, $300-$500 more depending on the size bins selected (our HOA program provides 96 gallon trash and recycling bins). The city ought to be able to get better pricing than a small HOA. And I don't have room to store 3 bins in the garage.

In general very supportive of the current PAYT system. Keep up the sustainability focus Lafayette.

I have spoken to many of my neighbors and they do not compost because it only comes once a week in the summer, and leads to maggots and stinky composting matter. We would all be grateful, if during the hottest months composting could be every week.

I live in an HOA and would welcome composting with a hauler that is at least as consistent as our current hauler. My only concern with the city plan is that I hear about poor service from the city's chosen hauler, while we haven't experienced any problems with the HOA contracted service.

I live in an HOA community with composting. I was able to reduce the size of my trash bin and do not find composting difficult or time consuming - tissues, paper towels, banana peels, apple cores, coffee grounds. I hardly have any trash. My daughter lives in an HOA community without composting plus her trash container is huge and her recycle container is small. She ends up putting recycling in the trash when her recycle bin is full plus all the trash that could be composted. We need to do this for our future generations!

This is a no brainier. Every dwelling which generates trash should be included in the composting program. It is ridiculous to have city goals and worldwide needs and not require people to participate.

I have lived in Lafayette for 20 years and would LOVE for our South Pointe Subdivision HOA to be included in this program! I believe we have over 300 homes in our sub. That would be A LOT of waste going to composting instead of a landfill. It is amazing that so much more is able to be composted with the city. We are a family of 5 and on average have 1-2 trash bags a week. If we were able to compost I would have less than a trash bag going to the landfill. I have tried composting in my own backyard with not much luck. I do understand that change is hard and it takes some adjusting, but we are not the first city to do this.. Thank you to this amazing little town for wanting and trying to do the right thing for our City and State. I really do feel they have the best interest for our people and city!
Thank You!! SC :-)

After reading other comments and also after receiving information from Tony Raeker regarding the proposed PAYT waste collection system, it is obvious that the City of Lafayette will do as it wants. We are seniors, living in a small HOA with small garages that cannot accommodate 3 waste carts! We are good stewards of the environment, and are diligent about recycling 64 gals every 2 weeks, would have very little waste to dispose of, and we prefer our current Waste Management company, but we are NOT INTERESTED in composting!
We do not approve of being forced to pay for composting, even though we will not participate in the program, however, if that is what the City decides to do, we will have no choice!
JBH

As a homeowner with an HOA that doesn't offer composting, I am very much in favor of joining the rest of Lafayette and neighboring communities, and composting!!!

I live in a neighborhood that has an HOA and I am so glad that finally, we HOA homes will be considered as residents of Lafayette who are required and expected to support the city's sustainability goals. While the "rank and file" citizens of Lafayette have been shouldering the participation and financial burden for years, it's past time HOA members give up their exclusivity and are expected to pitch in like any other citizen. It's hard to imagine why we haven't been included from the start. To actually make a difference, all of us need to participate. I applaud the City Council for putting years into this planning and look forward to living in a community where everyone does his or her part.

For all the people on here that *WANT* composting, noting is stopping you, either have your HOA join the city program or have your HOA provide that service. It is up to the HOA to decide if it will benefit enough folks to warrant the cost.

What many object to is being *FORCED* into a system that they don't want and won't use. The city's main consultant on this is EcoCycle and they report that over 90% of compost material is yard waste. HOAs that have lawn services don't generate much (if any) yard waste and composting is a waste for these neighborhoods. The materials and energy to create bins that won't be used and having the large trucks drive through the neighborhood every other week will cause more emissions and environmental damage than not providing compost services.

Many HOA's have done a much better job of negotiating contracts than the city, and with a much smaller user count. Forcing folks to pay more will take money out of the city's pockets. My HOA's trash rates will go up from 75 to 95% if forced onto the city plan. This is $15 a month (per household) that will not be spent at local businesses and will not generate sales tax for the city.

When the original plan was envisioned, it was to get multiple trucks off the streets of non-HOA neighborhoods and cut down on emissions and provide recycling to all of Lafayette. Most of these benefits were met without having to force neighborhoods into a system that was basically the same. That goal was met, time to move on to other issues and leave the HOAs to manage their own business.

I also live in an HOA that has a contract with Waste Management. We pay almost half of what the City is proposing. We also do not have room in our garages for three bins. Proposing a mandatory switch to the City’s system seems pretty heavy handed. JES

I am in favor of the pay-as-you-throw billing system. I live in an HOA and would like to have the ability to use the city's trash service so that I have options on sizes of trash bins and have compost bins available as well. It gives everyone the opportunity to choose exactly what kind of service they desire and hopefully less waste will be sent to landfills.

Tony - as a resident in Indian Peaks we would very much like it if composting were made available to our neighborhood. Thanks

Rex Hauck