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Innovation improves Las Cruces Utilities’ free mulch for residents

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Innovation improves Las Cruces Utilities’ free mulch for residents
Las Cruces Utilities Heavy Equipment Operator Hector Lozoya shows the difference in the mulch, the before and after use of the flip screen, which is shown behind him.

When Las Cruces Utilities picks up yard waste throughout the city with its Green Grappler, it becomes mulch that residents can pick up for free. Through the innovative experiment of a machine used to process dirt from other projects, the mulch is now better than ever, and residents have been rushing to get a bucketful at the Foothills Landfill Composting Facility at 555 Sonoma Ranch Blvd.

The flip screen machine was initially purchased to help LCU with two projects: separating trash from dirt in the pre-1965 landfill removal near Sonoma Ranch and reusing dirt from projects throughout the city. FLCF has been storing and separating construction debris from dirt – for example, when a pipe breaks and crews must dig up a portion of the street, which consists of water-saturated soil along with asphalt and concrete. The crew will send the dug-up materials to be processed at FLCF. Crews then can pick up the processed material for reuse, saving money for LCU and the City of Las Cruces by not needing to buy material to fill holes.  

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