A tremendous amount of the waste from our homes and offices that eventually makes it into landfills is biodegradable food waste. The reason why most people do not choose to compost their food waste is the inconvenience of doing so.
Solution: Adapt the common food grinder located in many sinks around the US such that the ground up waste is collected in any easily disposable sealed bag. Most food grinder simply grind the food and dispose off it in the house waste water. This simple adaptation would simply redirect the ground up food waste into a receptacle that would collect the waste until full. A light beside the sink would indicate when the receptacle is full, and disposal would be a simple as if it was merely trash. More and more cities offer composting services, and this compost could be collected along with the trash each week.
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You don't even need an in-home grinder. You just need to separately collect the biodegrtadeable waste along side trash and recycleables, where it gets ground and composted with industrial equipment.
Landfills are a green process, and we are nowhere near even considering "running out" of space in them. They produce fuel (methane), and eventually green space for parks, etc. They are highly regulated and environmentally benign.
If you want to compost, do it. But there's no environmental advantage to keeping stuff out of landfills except for transportation costs. The compost, if you don't do it at home, will go to power municipal buses, heating, and other equipment that would otherwise be using gasoline or fuel oils.
Think before you start recycling. Often, it does more harm than good.