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New Jersey’s New Food Waste Law. What Does it Mean For Your City?

Despite years of lagging behind its Northeast neighbors, New Jersey is getting serious about food waste. It has been six years since NJ legislators passed A2371 in April of 2020. This law required all large scale food waste generators within 25 miles of an approved recycling facility to separate organic waste. Still, recent food waste […]

Is food waste recycling elitist?

Sustainable living tends to be associated with wealthy people in wealthy regions of the country. Acts such as purchasing an electric vehicle, installing solar panels, eating a plant based diet or recycling food waste are usually performed by relatively affluent populations. All of these choices support a healthier environment, but most can be cost prohibitive […]

Now that the digesters are coming, who will feed them?

With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, companies large and small are exploring the incredible potential of biogas production through anaerobic digestion (AD). AD is not a new innovation – many large scale farms and wastewater facilities in the US already utilize this process to generate renewable natural gas (RNG) from biosolids. This ‘old […]