NECN featured an excellent story on the food waste ban in Massachusetts. The video features an interview with DEP Commissioner David Cash as well as footage of Compost Windrow Turners in action at Groundscapes Express in Wrentham. Visit our Food Waste page for guidance from RecyclingWorks Massachusetts on the specifics of the ban and resources to help your business comply…
This article from the Berkshire Eagle gives an excellent overview of the many businesses and institutions in the Berkshires who are adapting to the food waste ban with outstanding success. In an especially encouraging case, Berkshire Health Systems found that the food waste diversion program at one of their facilities had saved so much in disposal…
This article from the Worcester Business Journal contains an excellent summary of the goals of the food waste ban in Massachusetts, as well as perspectives from Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Maeve Vallely Bartlett as well as Rick Walton, owner of the Gardner Ale House, a business that has used RecyclingWorks to help them reduce…
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…
