Boulder’s Universal Zero Waste Ordinance
Requires business owners, residential property owners, institutions, and event permit holders in Boulder to provide separate and convenient compostable material containers and collection services.
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Austin’s Universal Recycling Ordinance
Covered “food enterprises” must provide organics diversion services.
Rhode Island Food Waste Diversion Law
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
"Commercial organic material” is barred from entering solid waste disposal streams.
California’s Mandatory Commercial Recycling Law
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.
Report, Bans and Beyond: Designing and Implementing Organic Waste Bans and Mandatory Organics Recycling Laws
Analyzes the structure and implementation of organic waste bans and presents examples from states and cities with existing or proposed waste bans, and offers a toolkit to evaluate options for developing similar policies.
Vermont’s Renewable Energy Standard
Requires utilities to reduce customers’ fossil fuel use through either electrification, efficiency, fuel switching, or storage. Requirement is 2% of a utility’s annual sales starting in 2017 and increasing by 0.67% annually, reaching 12% in 2032.
Tennessee’s Energy Right Program
Actively promotes electrification and fuel switching through customer incentives.
Massachusetts’ Act to Advance Clean Energy (2018)
Expands the scope of electric energy efficiency to include measures designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of expanded electricity consumption while minimizing ratepayer costs.
California Fuel Substitution Test
Determines how to demonstrate that an existing building measure does not 1) increase total source consumption or 2) adversely impact the environment when compared with the baseline measure using the original fuel.