“Wisconsin is such a gorgeous state and people really work hard here to make it stay that way,” Mouchayleh said, explaining why she signed up.

Amy Irving’s four-person, Sauk Ridge Trail household — including two children — already composts the used bedding from its chickens and used to take its food scraps to a collection point at UW-Madison, where she works.

“Years ago, back when the original pilot began, I was excited to hear that Madison would start curbside collection for food scraps,” Irving said. “I kept waiting for a full roll-out, but it never came. When the notice came for this new pilot, I immediately signed up. Our household has a good amount of food scrap waste as we eat a lot of fresh foods.”

Weekly curbside collection of the scraps of about 200 households will run from Aug. 2 to Sept. 20 on Fridays. Scraps will go to the Envision biodigester in rural Middleton. The biodigester, owned by Gundersen Health System, now accepts cow manure and some food scraps to generate biogas to help fuel the system’s power needs.

Other than the new rules and new name, the biggest change from the earlier pilot program will be oversight.