OCEAN CITY, Md.- The Town of Ocean City has struck a deal with composting company Go Green OC to handle some of the resort town's food waste.
"Ocean City Council finally approved our compost program and sort of built a mechanism to pay us to remove the food waste from the waste stream. We are very pumped up. We are optimistic," said Josh Chamberlain, founder of Go Green OC.
The agreement was made at Tuesday's town council meeting.
"It allows us to begin composting at a scale that we've never seen before, and we're allowed to divert waste now about 30% of it from the waste stream and usually it's typically sent to an incinerator," said Chamberlain.
Chamberlain said it was a step in the right direction.
"The way to move us forward is to find a solution to the problem and then try to work with the town to make it work and this is totally proof in the pudding that when you have an idea and you can make dollars to cents and prove it, then the town will listen and they did just that," said Chamberlain.
Chamberlain said the town plans to pay his company per ton of waste it collects, just as it pays its incinerator collector.