“Our Department of Environmental Health and Sustainability has allocated existing funds that we could use to subsidize startup costs associated with this ordinance,” Brosonan-Smith said.

Source: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/restaurants-to-lead-new-composting-effort-aspen-city-council-decides-while-approving-strict-ordinance/

"We thought the benefits of the LCRR might exceed costs by an order of magnitude—but they were many times that," said co-lead author Ronnie Levin, instructor in the Department of Environmental Health.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-reveals-epa-copper-yields-billion.html