Happy Holidays. S-2494 Would Ban Commercial Food Waste From NJ Landfills (article)
Although I'm super late to this article, I had to repost it due to its importance and the fact that I haven't seen any updates on it since this was posted. Hopefully they can get it passed, although I think bans should be as stringent as Vermont's, which bans all food waste residentially and commercially by 2020. Original source found at: http://patch.com/new-jersey/middletown-nj/happy-holidays-s-2494-would-ban-commercial-food-waste-nj-landfills By Bill Simmons (Open Post) Updated October 26, 2014 at 8:02 pm Just in time for the holidays, Senator Raymond Lesniak introduced a bill on October 14th that would ban large commercial institutions from disposing their food waste in landfills and incinerators in NJ. That would be like Thanksgiving for those who struggle with hunger, because it would make donating food to food banks a practical business decision.…