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The every 2 weeks thing is to encourage green bin usage as food waste tends to be the smelliest garbage most people produce. By picking up organics weekly and garbage every 2 weeks, it encourages people to use the green bin to reduce smells in their homes from rotting garbage even if they don't actually care about composting.
Food waste is relatively heavy so the city is probably happy they don't have to haul yours away when you have your own compost.
Municipal compost is great! I love that my trash doesn't smell anymore, since it's almost entirely inert. Solved our fruit fly problem, too.
Yup. And we get unlimited free compost.
I would guess it makes landfills a lot nicer, too. Less methane, less trash 'juice' runoff, fewer seagulls...