[matt04]

It's the best regulatory policy we have seen in the U.S.,"

Of course the increased cost of paying grocery store employees to sort thru rotting food and trash will be passed on to consumers. Or much more likely, stores will spend money on facilitates to sort it but no(smart) employee will ever do it.

[Calvin Locke]

I once saw a Dirty Jobs epi. There's a pig farm or some such outside of Las Vegas that takes food waste from Vegas for feed.

I think I there's a egg farmer in NC that also raises alligators. The gators take care of the deceased poultry, and when they are big enough, the alligators are butchered for meat and high quality hides.

[Drill Thrawl]

Many farmers and gardeners also rely on this food waste. Is it required to go to one of these new recycling centers or can they continue with what they are doing?

[libertarian27]

It’s another Bottle Bill - these manufacturers and retailers now need to hire more people plus the facilities costs to push all this stuff around - in the end the consumer pays for it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

There was a time when food waste was sold to hog farmers. It had to be reheated before being fed. So, what has happened?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think the best solution to this might be with accelerated decomposition.

A lot of gardeners use compost heaps for vegetable waste, but someone figured out that if you put it into a drum that was rotated a few times a day, it decomposed much faster into better quality compost. Others added bacteria specifically to speed up the process.

Eventually one inventor came up with a machine that would first mechanically pulverize, then decompose, then turn it into a thin, almost odorless liquid nutrient slurry that not only made a good fertilizer, but could be chemically modified for pH and adjusted for a given type of plant to be fertilized, based on both the soil and its needs.

The problem associated with this is the waste gases that are produced. But these waste gases can be consumed by other microorganisms, such as algae, to produce far more stable, and even useful substances, like (granted inedible) vegetable oil.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oh, goody. A forced market.

Why can’t they just reprocess the food scraps and try to sell them? FDA has just given approval for at least one company to reprocess recalled food and sell it as good food. Just do the same with scraps. Easy-peasy!

(Did I really need the sarc tag? #FDAsucks)

[karnage]

Gill’s Onions uses onion waste for biofuel to power its facilities. Entirely private initiative by an innovative capitalist.

[jongaltsr]

Simple solution......
Let Rats and other vermin eat the waste.
Harvest the Rats. I hear they actually taste pretty good.
Add a few cockroaches instead of lettuce and you get a nice crunchy meal.

[Portcall24]

Someone needs to build a facility in downtown Washington, D.C. They could make a killing just on the waste that comes out of the WH.

[Fresh Wind]

Just wait till they discover the potential for recycling discarded human bodies.

[dennisw]

These high toned Connecticut idiots need to allow some pig farms in their area. Hogs will eat all those gourmet scraps just truck them over

[Starstruck]

When I was in the Service back in the Sixties one of the KPs would be outside making sure the trash was separated from what was called “edible garbage”. This “edible garbage” was picked up by hog farmers. Many of us Soldiers thought it was edible garbage while still on the serving line.

[Bellflower]

Why not have a fuel processing plant in each area that processes all kinds of organic waste? Wood chips from trees that are regularly trimmed or cut down, grass clippings from the community parks etc., grass clippings that could be bagged from from local roadsides, residents' grass clippings, algae and weeds harvested from local lakes and ponds, food wastes from individuals and businesses including old oil from restaurants, tossed out wood furniture, maybe even cotton materials, and probably hundreds of other sources. People in the community could have access to the finished fuel at a cheaper price than other fuels. People would be motivated to bring in their waste to recycle and because of cheaper fuel.