Pathway 2.

Cross-Cutting Approaches to Reducing Emissions → Materials Consumption and Solid Waste

2.6.9 Food Waste

LPDD Recommendation: "States should adopt laws that other states have adopted on the waste problems posed by products, packaging, food scraps, and industrial waste."

LPDD Recommendation: "States should adopt legislation banning food waste in landfills, using Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law as a model."

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Proposed Agriculture Resilience Act (2020)

Jurisdiction: Congress

Sets a target of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. agriculture by the year 2040.

San Francisco’s Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

All covered persons must sort their waste into separate bins and subscribe to collection services.

NYC’s Commercial Organic Waste Law

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires covered food waste generators to source-separate their organic material and either arrange for the transportation of this material to a processing facility or process the food waste on-site.

Metro Portland’s Food Waste Diversion Ordinance

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires that local jurisdictions within the Metro region adopt policies requiring covered businesses o source-separate and collect food waste and send it to an authorized facility.

Hennepin County MN’s Commercial Organics Recycling Ordinance

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires certain businesses to divert food scraps for beneficial use, including donation for human consumption and diversion of food scraps for composting, anaerobic digestion, or animal feed.

Boulder’s Universal Zero Waste Ordinance

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires business owners, residential property owners, institutions, and event permit holders in Boulder to provide separate and convenient compostable material containers and collection services.

Austin’s Universal Recycling Ordinance

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Covered “food enterprises” must provide organics diversion services.

Rhode Island Food Waste Diversion Law

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires covered entities to divert organic waste to an authorized composting or anaerobic digestion facility, or a facility that uses any other authorized recycling method.

Massachusetts Commercial Organic Waste Ban

Jurisdiction: State Agencies

"Commercial organic material” is barred from entering solid waste disposal streams.

California’s Mandatory Commercial Recycling Law

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires businesses that produce specified amounts of organic waste to comply with organic waste recycling procedures in order to reduce the amount of organic waste in landfills.