State officials visited Groundscape Express in Wrentham to celebrate the start of the food waste ban. This article from the Attleboro Sun Chronicle contains perspectives from the company’s owner as well as MassDEP commissioner David Cash, and details how Groundscape Express uses compsting for fertilizer as well as burms for erosion control. Visit our Food Waste page for guidance from…
To celebrate the beginning of the food waste ban, state officials visited the seventh-generation Barstow Farm in Hadley, which operates an anaerobic digester. This system takes in food waste from the community and processes it into methane, which is used to generate electricity. Check out the article for perspectives from MassDEP commissioner David Cash as…
Officials from the Massachusetts department of Environmental protection visited a Waltham supermarket as part of the start of the Full Harvest Tour, celebrating the beginning of the Massachusetts Commercial Organics Waste Ban. This article from the Waltham News Tribune details their visit and includes perspectives from Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Maeve Vallely Bartlett…
UMass Lowell celebrated the start of the Massachusetts Commercial Organics Waste Ban with state officials including DEP Commissioner David Cash, who led by example, taking an active role in the day’s kitchen scrap collection. UMass Lowell made an early commitment to food waste diversion, and began composting a year ago at the behest of a student…
This article from Cape Cod Online takes a look at how businesses on the cape are responding to the food waste ban. In a region like Cape Cod where all waste must be shipped elsewhere, the food waste ban is of special importance in that it will help to reduce the overall amount waste needing to…
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental protection has issued this press release celebrating the start of our state’s first-in-the-nation commercial organics waste ban. Check out our food waste page for more information on how you and your business can help to divert food waste.
This article from the Huffington Post focuses on the ways the food waste ban helps to ensure food security and feed the hungry in Masssachusetts. The food waste ban incentivises donations of unwanted but usable food to Food Rescue Organizations such as those listed on our Food Donation Guide. Note: The article mentions that there are 17,000…
This article from the Berkshire Eagle’s Go Green Column, highlights the upcoming food waste ban beginning Wednesday, October 1st. The article provides some helpful starting tips for those organizations that generate more than one ton of organic waste each week and are subject to the ban.
In this article, BioCycle examined several food waste collectors from three states including Massachusetts and shared tips for efficient organics collection from the hauler’s perspective. Across the board, these haulers are experiencing an uptick in business with one Massachusetts hauler noting that their phone was “ringing off the hook,” as the October 1 start date of…
This coming Monday, September 23, the Association of Post Consumer Plastic Recyclers is conducting a FREE webinar on rigid plastics recycling. This provides the opportunity to hear about rigid plastic recycling resources and learn how one major US grocery chain has already implemented a program to recover rigid grocery plastics. Learn more about this webinar…
