Massachusetts recently enacted the most aggressive mandatory composting program in history, to affect supermarkets, colleges, nursing homes, and prisons. How are they adapting?
Americas trash stream is stuffed with squandered food 36m tons of it. According to the federal government, tossed food reaches more landfills and incinerators in America than any other municipal solid waste, and its a problem that Massachusetts officials are taking seriously.
Starting 1 October, approximately 1,700 of the states biggest food-waste generators think hospitals, colleges, supermarkets, hotels, nursing homes, prisons and other facilities that produce at least one ton of food waste per week must divert it away from landfills.
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