Turning yard waste into something called “biochar.” Feeding food scraps to worms or black soldier fly larvae. How about using AI-powered trash cans to sort garbage.

Can any of those innovative ideas help solve Miami-Dade’s growing waste crisis?

Those three are just a few of the proposals that companies have pitched to a county hoping to find new ways to reduce the steam of waste fastly filling landfills and to improve lagging recycling rates by residents.

In the search for good ideas, the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority will award $100,000 each to three startups that are developing technology to divert waste from landfills and improve public sustainability engagement. The winners will be selected from a pool of 10 finalists and announced later this month.

The county has mounting waste

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