Town puts out RFP for preferred vendor program By Julie Wu Since its inception in 2018, Belmont Composts!, a project of the nonprofit Belmont Food Collaborative, which also runs the Farmers’ Market, has urged curbside composting to reduce Belmont’s trash, saving both town funds and the environment. Using online and in-person outreach and leveraging collective bargaining power to obtain bulk discount rates, Belmont Composts! has made it possible for more than 600 households to sign up with curbside compost companies. With approximately 10,000 households in Belmont, there is potential for much more participation. In October 2019, the cities of Newton [READ MORE]