Don’t pitch those peels, recycle them: California’s new food-waste law
Recycling kitchen scraps and unused food is the single easiest and fastest thing that every person can do to fight climate change, according to California recycling officials. That’s why, beginning Jan. 1, the most populous state in the nation is requiring every city and county to have a program to collect organic waste – from eggshells to yard trimmings – and turn it into compost, biofuel, or energy.
Several states, and even a few countries, such as France, have some type of law to keep food waste out of landfills, where it rots and gives off methane. That “” greenhouse gas is 84 times more powerful and has a much worse short-term impact on the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Yet, only tiny Vermont – with a population of about 625,000 –
