{"id":1317749,"date":"2020-01-17T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=992752"},"modified":"2020-01-17T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T03:12:11","slug":"saturday-letters-public-opinion-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/saturday-letters-public-opinion-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday letters: public opinion, food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/04\/letters-to-the-editor.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/04\/letters-to-the-editor.png 600w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/04\/letters-to-the-editor-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Possible life for public opinion in Glenwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone should be glad that Mayor Johnathan Godes responded in kind in a guest column to \u201cDeFrates column: City not doing enough to engage public on big issues.\u201d At least it establishes a pulse and possible life for public opinion in Glenwood.<\/p>\n<p>Things only improve if true consensus exists. It\u2019s not about getting everyone to agree, but to have people express themselves \u201cin process,\u201d and be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Stewart<\/p>\n<p>Grand Junction<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Bringing food waste to landfill will add to city\u2019s revenue stream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many good reasons to keep food out of landfills. The first one is the reduction in the creation of methane. The global climate crisis should be in everyone\u2019s mind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to point out that the city is on the right track. Landfills make money. The city can use that money to improve compost operations, educate the community about waste issues, and start other diversion programs like electronics collection.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the city has retaken the management of the landfill, it is in compliance and there is a more responsible course of action taking place. The city is again making money at the landfill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next course of action is to get the South Canyon Landfill a USCC STA certification, so that Glenwood\u2019s food waste can be brought to the landfill and added to the revenue stream. We currently make compost, but not with food. It will boost our local economy and create less methane at the South Canyon Landfill. Win, win.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Vanian<\/p>\n<p>Glenwood Springs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/saturday-letters-public-opinion-food-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible life for public opinion in Glenwood Everyone should be glad that Mayor Johnathan Godes responded in kind in a guest column to \u201cDeFrates column: City not doing enough to engage public on big issues.\u201d At least it establishes a pulse and possible life for public opinion in Glenwood. Things only improve if true consensus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 05:02:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}