Expand the statewide food waste ban

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Recommendation: The ban expansion could incrementally include all wasted food disposal (i.e., the Massachusetts Commercial Food Material Disposal Ban1 and the Vermont Food Scrap Ban2).

1 Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Commercial Food Material Disposal Ban. Mass.gov. Published October 2021. https://www.mass.gov/guides/commercial-food-material-disposal-ban
2 Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management & Prevention Division, Solid Waste Program. Universal Recycling: Food Scrap Ban Guidance. Dec.vermont.gov. Published June 2020. https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/wmp/SolidWaste/Documents/Universal-Recycling/Food-Scrap-Ban-Guidance.pdf
 

Craving context? This recommendation is included in the Wasted Food brief, part of the NH Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan.

Read the Wasted Food brief here

 

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