Hennepin County’s commercial organics recycling ordinance 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. Businesses must
source-separate back-of-house food scraps and either self-haul or subscribe to a service to collect and deliver food scraps to a processing facility. Covered entities are businesses that produce a significant amount of food waste, including but not limited to restaurants, grocery stores, food wholesalers and manufacturers, hotels, and event centers. With regard to residential collection, the ordinance requires cities to provide residential organics collection services to households that already have access to curbside recycling collection by January 1, 2022. Cities with populations under 10,000 can provide an organics drop-off site instead of providing collection
services.