Massachusetts environmental officials plan to ban restaurants, institutions and other businesses from putting food waste in the trash starting in 2014, according to an article in the Boston Globe newspaper.
“Officials said the proposed rules, designed to save space in landfills and reduce emissions of gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, will make Massachusetts the first state with such a comprehensive prohibition on commercial food waste,” the paper reported. “Their immediate goal is to divert a third of the nearly 1.4 million tons of organic waste produced every year in Massachusetts from landfills by the end of the decade...State officials
