Curbside compostables pickup, and those neat green latching kitchen pails, have been around for years here in Oakland too (they even talk to us in thought bubbles, too). My apartment building doesn’t seem to participate, maybe because the food scraps pickup is combined with the yard trimmings pickup, and my building doesn’t really have a yard (I’ve never inquired about it, because I produce almost no compostable waste anyway.) One thing Toronto does have that we don’t is diaper recycling in their curbside pickup.

Toronto, whence I’ve just returned, has curbside compostables pick-up, and neat green latching containers for the stuff to go in…