I've been wondering that very same question. However, I think Lents is not yet set up to process the mixed yard debris/food waste, though it may be in use as a transfer station. Thus, garbage haulers would have to send the mix to one of the more distant processors, which I think are in Albany and perhaps up to Tacoma. Would COP be on the hook for the increased transportation costs if the nearby North Plains facility was no longer available? Given the amount of money that the City spent on all of the advertising, the compost bins, changing the rate structure, etc., I don't see the City backing off from food composting. (Though I am clearing the fridge and cupboards in the next couple of weeks before the end of December, just in case!)

There's at least one other sacrifice zone being planned, this one down in Tualatin/Stafford.

Our guess would be the Lents neighborhood.

Cully or east county would work as well.

So long as it's down wind, eh?

Has Len Bergstein ever met a stink of any kind he didn't love to represent?

Lents already has a lot to deal with. The UR district designed to improve the low income livability of the town center area is now focusing on destroying auto mobility on Foster Road West of 82nd. Kenton would be a much better place than Lents for slop bucket waste. The lot between I-5 and Interstate Avenue that had been used for container storage is now empty. Let Sammyboy live with the stink he championed and then explain all the where as and whys to his neighbors.

There are now some high dollar McMansions near where the old dump (back in the 1950s) used to be. I don't think the neighbors will take kindly to Portlandia's food slop being composted put their way...and it. Is in "Clackistan" and we know how noisy those folks can be!
Should be a good fight!

It is coming to Cully, eventually. That's where they are building their giant bio-stink reactor right now. They can't afford to pave our streets, but they can afford to subsidize this thing. My prediction is that it will be a huge odor machine, further degrading our basically unlivable neighborhood.

You'd think that the Utopians would give it up. No one likes them or their plans. If it wasn't for their government jobs they'd starve. They couldn't give their ideas away, but they can sure dump them on the little people and teach them in the schools. I wonder where the people who dreamed up mass food composting live. Bet it isn't in North Plains. If it's not good enough for them, it belongs to you.

Now that urban chickens are all the rage, why not urban pig farming?

Goats are the new chickens. People tend to like the she-goats, but are not so crazy about the he-goats. Maybe they could let he-goats graze on the stuff when they are not busy with grass and blackberries?