Posted on 12/09/2021 7:15:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trashcans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that’s set to take effect in January.
The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere as it decays. When food scraps and other organic materials break down they emit methane, a greenhouse gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
To avoid those emissions, California plans to start converting residents’ food waste into compost or energy, becoming the second state in the U.S. to do so after Vermont launched a similar program last year.
Most people in California will be required to toss excess food into green waste bins rather than the trash. Municipalities will then turn the food waste into compost or use it to create biogas, an energy source that is similar to natural gas.
“This is the biggest change to trash since recycling started in the 1980s,” said Rachel Wagoner, director of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
She added that it “is the single easiest and fastest thing that every single person can do to affect climate change.”
The state also set a 2025 goal of diverting 20% of food that would otherwise go to landfills to feed people in need. Supermarkets must start donating their excess food in January and hotels, restaurants, hospitals, schools and large event venues will start doing so in 2024.
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They are really, literally gonna keep up this nonsense until their self-annihilation. There’s no convincing them.
“To avoid those emissions, California plans to start converting residents’ food waste into compost”
right. because that’s DIFFERENT than said wastes “rotting” ... and of course, no methane is produced by “composting”, whereas “rotting” does ...
Eff’ing idiots in CA can’t even keep the electricity on and they think they can change the climate.
Don't give them any ideas. For years, NYC did not allow garbage disposals. I think it was under Rudy that they finally allowed them.
biogas, an energy source that is similar to natural gas.
and the calculated net benefit is.....................................
Rats, raccoons, and other scavengers hardest hit.
Up until the late 70s, pig farmers from New Jersey had regular curbside pick-up routes throughout various residential neighborhoods in the City of Philadelphia for buckets of food garbage. The Italian Market area was one such slops-rich destination.
Vegetable waste belongs in a compost pile.
more stuff down the garbage disposal except bones and egg shells
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