Posted on 04/08/2022 2:39:11 PM PDT by grundle
CHICO, Calif., April 8 (Reuters) - A California law requiring grocery stores and restaurants to donate leftover food has been hard for local food banks and small towns to implement due to climbing fuel costs and uncertainty over who pays for food recovery.
While other states restrict food going into landfills, California is the first to require food be donated for human consumption.
Food waste makes up a fifth of climate warming gas emissions in California dumps, according to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecyle).
Implementing the new rules has been especially challenging in rural California. As the North State Food Bank prepared for an influx of newly-mandated donations, the daunting costs of picking up food across 8,000 square miles (5 million acres/20,720 square kilometers) in six northern California counties became clear.
"I can't send the truck all over town, picking up leftover sandwiches," said Tom Dearmore, director of community services at the Butte County Community Action Agency, which houses the food bank.
"The more we have to spend on fuel, the less food we can buy. It's pretty cut and dry."
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For Democrats it is never about results, it is about feeling good about what they require others to do. It is about controlling every aspects of our lives.
Hard-core Socialism. Pretty soon everyone is the same in having nothing except the government leaders and the government workers. Then, you’ll do whatever they tell you just to not starve.
How can they properly store food that needs refrigeration, etc???
Let them eat garbage...I mean cake.
Venezuela, here we come.
Just SHUT DOWN the food banks and leave a Big Sign with the Governors Phone Number on it
Stupid Californians. They know nothing of freedom.
California has found a way to attract flies without rotting
food.
The leaders are stinking up the place.
Oh, brother!
Restaurants, grocery stores should drop a lot of this food onto curbs closest to Pelowsy mansion and all other liberal leaders.
Yes,
Driving ten miles to pick up some soggy sandwich is the great example of efficiency!
Did you ever look at the back of your local grocery store?
That stuff stinks! Maybe they could feed it to the pigs?!
Although that may be illegal?
“Food waste makes up a fifth of climate warming gas emissions in California dumps...”
Ain’t Central Planning grand?
It doesn’t help when the homeless shelter rejects donated muffin stumps.
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