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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.…

Massachusetts plans to ban commercial food waste in 2014 (article)

If you don't clean your plate at a Massachusetts restaurant, the scraps may not go to waste when a commercial food disposal ban goes into effect. They will be turned into clean energy, officials with the state's Energy and Environmental Affairs said. Energy and Environmental Affairs announced a proposed plan that would require any entity that disposes of at least 1 ton of organic waste per week to donate or repurpose the food starting July 1, 2014. The ban will affect large restaurants, hospitals, universities, hotels and other big businesses and institutions. The plan calls for food waste to be shipped to a facility that uses anaerobic digestion to covert food waste into a biogas that produces electricity and heat. Or, it can be taken to composting or animal-feed operations.…