Dive summary:

• Residents in Austin, Texas, are testing a program to collection organic waste once a week to be turned into compost.
• The first five-test groups make are comprised of about 7,900 households representing Austin’s demographic diversity.
• The pilot program will last for one year, if it goes well Austin hopes to provide organic waste collection to all residents by 2016.

From the article:

Those participating in the program will receive a 96-gallon cart to collect yard trimmings, food scrap and food-soiled paper. Austin Resource Recovery currently provides all customers with weekly yard waste collection. The pilot participants also received a small food scrap collector to help take food scraps from the kitchen to the organics cart. The city will have the organics processed to generate compost.

Pilot participants will pay no additional cost for the service. ...