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Food waste becomes California’s newest climate change target
The Associated Press ^ | December 9, 2021 | By KATHLEEN RONAYNE

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: compost; globalwarming; hoax; mandate; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are really, literally gonna keep up this nonsense until their self-annihilation. There’s no convincing them.


21 posted on 12/09/2021 8:20:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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 ...


22 posted on 12/09/2021 9:20:58 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: webheart
It's not like these ever heard of the carbon cycle in the 4th grade.


23 posted on 12/09/2021 9:33:32 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Eff’ing idiots in CA can’t even keep the electricity on and they think they can change the climate.


24 posted on 12/09/2021 10:21:41 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: Graybeard58
How will they monitor people who have garbage disposals?

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.

25 posted on 12/09/2021 10:22:56 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What could go wrong?

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26 posted on 12/09/2021 10:26:45 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

biogas, an energy source that is similar to natural gas.


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27 posted on 12/09/2021 10:30:29 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and the calculated net benefit is.....................................


28 posted on 12/09/2021 10:30:58 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rats, raccoons, and other scavengers hardest hit.


29 posted on 12/09/2021 11:05:14 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Howe_D_Dewty

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.


30 posted on 12/09/2021 3:32:06 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. --Frederick Douglass)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Vegetable waste belongs in a compost pile.


31 posted on 12/09/2021 5:58:11 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

more stuff down the garbage disposal except bones and egg shells


32 posted on 12/10/2021 10:54:48 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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