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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
Well they had to construct a new facility to deal with the compost, it's not like they just throw it in the landfill and let it decompose.
New facility, upkeep, wages. It all costs money.
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The question is if it isn't in the long run cheaper once all externalities are considered. Why are we doing it?
If all of those things you listed only provide "feeling better about ourselves" as a benefit we shouldn't do it.
The price of methane emission is a bit of a wild card but outside of that Landfill costs and volumes are known so it should be quite easy to produce a time value of money calc to show this is a net benefit to the city.
If it doesn't save the city money it shouldn't be done.