Los Angeles to experiment with table-scrap collection

First it was bottles and cans. Then it was cardboard and lawn clippings. And next month, Los Angeles officials will ask a select group of residents to reuse coffee grounds, eggshells and other leftovers -- by placing them in yet another recycling bin.

The Los Angeles City Council, looking to stay at the vanguard of recycling, voted Tuesday for an experimental garbage pickup program that will ask some residents to take on a fourth city-issued refuse can: a small indoor bin to hold table scraps.

Residents of single-family homes and small apartment buildings already lug three oversized bins to the curb -- blue for recycling, green for lawn clippings and black for everything else.

Now, officials from the city's Bureau of Sanitation said they would distribute new 2-gallon kitchen pails to nearly 5,000 households in Harbor Gateway, Lincoln Heights and South Los Angeles, allowing residents of those neighborhoods to dispose of bones and tea bags, as well as "food-soiled" materials, such as pizza boxes.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-scraps13-2008aug13,0,1663850.story

They get our leftover lettuce &such and are happy. No bones on my dinner plate, though.