In 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection amended regulations on solid waste disposal by adding “commercial organic material” to a list of several materials already barred from entering solid waste disposal streams. The ban applies only to commercial and institutional food waste generators. Food scrap generators may comply by reducing their food scrap production below the one ton per week threshold, donating surplus food, processing food scraps onsite, or sending food scraps to an animal feed, composting, or anaerobic digestion facility.