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Imagine winning three months of free garbage service. How would you spend those extra dollars? Participate in the City of Fremont Food Scraps Contest for your chance to win.
The City of Fremont and Allied Waste Services are offering free garbage service to 60 Fremont residents with the best suggestions for increasing participation in Fremont's food scrap recycling program. Contest winners will receive credit for three free months of standard collection service (garbage, recycling, and green waste services) from Allied Waste. The credit for free service will be awarded to 60 people who submit the best suggestions as determined by City of Fremont Environmental Services Division. The food scraps contest is available to Fremont residents who live in single-family homes, and are billed for individual garbage, recycling, and green cart service. Employees of the City of Fremont, Allied Waste Services, and their family members are not eligible to win. Allied Waste is sponsoring the contest as part of their exemplary customer program.
To participate in this contest, suggestions for increasing Fremont's food scrap participation should be mailed or delivered to the City of Fremont Environmental Services Division, 39550 Liberty St., Fremont, CA 94538. Entries may also be submitted to the City by calling 510-494-4581 or sending an e-mail to envsvc@ci.fremont.ca.us. Contest entries should include a name, garbage service address, e-mail address or phone number, and an idea that will encourage other residents to recycle food scraps. The most useful suggestions will be published in future City newsletters.
How does Fremont's food scrap recycling program work? Residents place food scraps and food-soiled paper in their green cart, along with grass and leaves. Over 30 percent of Fremont's garbage is food scraps or food-soiled paper, such as paper towels and paper plates. The food scraps, grass, and leaves are mixed and turned into compost, not buried in a landfill. One of the tangible benefits of the food scrap recycling program is the annual Compost Giveaway event held in the spring. At this event, Fremont residents may pick up two free bags of compost to use in the garden as mulch or soil amendment.
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