{"id":236431,"date":"2023-10-23T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/how-mackinac-island-gets-composting-right\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:26:48","slug":"how-mackinac-island-gets-composting-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/how-mackinac-island-gets-composting-right\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mackinac Island Gets Composting Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"post-simple post-capital-letter\">\n<p> On a hot July day on Michigan\u2019s vehicle-free Mackinac Island, people swarm the downtown streets on foot and bikes and in horse-drawn carriages. Sitting high atop a cart emblazoned with the mission of \u201cKeeping Mackinac Beautiful,\u201d a city sanitation worker maneuvers a two-horse team through the fray, stopping periodically to collect trash and compost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-simple\">\n<p>This iconic Great Lakes vacation spot has been running a composting program since the 1990s. Tourists often stop to gawk at the novelty of a horse-drawn garbage cart\u2014and many look no further than that. But a closer look reveals far more than a gimmick: Mackinac\u2019s system of small-town composting has been in place for decades and now thrives despite its limitations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-image-caption align-center\">\n<div class=\"post-caption\">\n<p>A worker drives the slop wagon after delivering waste to the solid waste facility. (Photo credit: Paige Hodder)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-simple\">\n<p>More and more communities across the U.S. are adopting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2023\/10\/23\/mackinac-islands-decades-old-composting-system-can-serve-as-a-model-for-newer-efforts\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at civileats.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot July day on Michigan\u2019s vehicle-free Mackinac Island, people swarm the downtown streets on foot and bikes and in horse-drawn carriages. Sitting high atop a cart emblazoned with the mission of \u201cKeeping Mackinac Beautiful,\u201d a city sanitation worker maneuvers a two-horse team through the fray, stopping periodically to collect trash and compost. 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