City Council, September 18, 2026
Decided: Hearing on Boston curbside food waste collection program (Docket 0773)
What happened
On September 18, 2026, Boston acted on Hearing on Boston curbside food waste collection program (Docket 0773).
This was a Boston City Council Committee on City Services hearing (Docket 0773) on the status of the city's curbside food waste collection program; it was informational only with no votes taken.
- Jurisdiction
- Boston, MA
- Governing body
- Final authority
- Date
- September 18, 2026
- Decisions
- 1 zoning decision
- Outcome
- Decided
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Hearing on Boston curbside food waste collection program (Docket 0773)
Informational hearing on the status of the City of Boston's curbside food waste collection program. Administration (Chris Osgood, Interim Chief of Streets; Brian Sweat, Chief of Environment; Avantika Mathur, Director of Waste Policy) presented on the program serving ~27,000 households with a...
Key Decisions (1)
Hearing on Boston curbside food waste collection program (Docket 0773)
Market Signals (4)
Infrastructure
Boston lacks composting capacity within the Commonwealth; ~80-85% of collected…
Infrastructure
MassDEP is expected to promulgate a residential food waste disposal…
Commercial Demand
Roughly 80% of Boston's ~1.1 million tons of annual waste…
Sentiment
Council interest centers on expanding composting access to dense, multi-unit…
Who spoke
9 distinct speakers; 9 identified names.
All speaker roles: 5 Councilmember, 1 Chair, 3 Staff.
Identified name roles: 5 Councilmember, 1 Chair, 3 Staff.
Speaker sample: Avantika Mathur, Staff.
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Zoning terms (4)
15 recorded timestamps
- commercial (5 timestamps)
- industrial (2 timestamps)
- residential (5 timestamps)
- density (3 timestamps)
Decision moments (1)
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