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Posted on: May 2, 2017

[ARCHIVED] A Reason to be Proud!

The "Chicago Tribune" wrote a wonderful article about Highwood being the first municipality in Illinois
to add food scrap composting into our waste hauling contract. Please click on the link to read this wonderful article.

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