Sending it to starving children in China?
Hmmmm.... Food sent to a landfill is, actually, composted....so it seems that would fulfill the mandate.
That sounds like a bunch of California busybodies must have moved across the country, just to dip their beaks in events for private businesses.
One cannot always mandate that sort of outcome.
Instead of demanding conformity of behavior, why not add an incentive to donate? Tax breaks, utility discounts, discounts on bulk food purchases.
It’s not necessary or practical to go round cracking the whips of unenforceable legislation.
Absurd.
The food is MINE. What right does the city have to tell me what to do with my property—especially my short-lived, disposable and garbage-destined property??
Someone is going to make money off of this stupid regulation. I bet it is some brother-in-law of a city commissioner who just HAPPENS to be in the “I can take that off your hands” business.
In the city of Austin, you have a trash can, a recycling can and a composting can. The city picks them up every week.
Soon the only restaurants available will be chains owned by large corporations who have the capital to cope with these increasing government regulations—as is happening in California.
Buy a goat.
A fat goat.
Hope for in one hand, squat over the other hand. Wait and see the first arrival.
I used to cringe at the perceived waste associated with all you can eat buffets. Not only do people take more than they can eat, but the buffet itself ends with half-full bins of food. Seemed a lot of waste.
Then I read an article explaining that all the uneaten food, from both customer plates and buffet trays, is gathered together and auctioned to local pig farmers.
Every night, drop it off at City Hall in large, plastic bags.
Composting is fine for veggies, but not for meats and dishes containing meat.
Donate it.....now that is a brilliant idea (/s)...say, send it to Bastrop where they can dispose of it in their landfill??!!! Or, we’ll have food Nazi’s tell us we HAVE to take our scraps home in a doggy bag and dispose of them due to ruling!!!!
We loved our quarter decade in and around Austin. BUT, SO GLAD we are out of there and the mound of stupid regulations they keep on passing and taxes keep rising when people change to save water, electric and now garbage.
It is so lovely to be building a home and ALL that we need government to do is approve our septic and well. That’s IT!
Commie Austin.
Hmmm - saving uneaten food. Flies will have a feast!
FACT:
The 2006 movie “Idiocracy” was filmed in and around Austin, Texas.
Maybe left-over food can be processed into “Brawndo” (It’s Got Electrolytes).
Six months from now: Austin rescinds the “dont throw away” food regulation due to massive influx of flies and the horrible stink.
Just ship to the “City” offices who came up with this BS. Consider it donated food.
Fascism.
It’s not that it’s not a good idea. It’s just none of the government’s business.
Next on the agenda, suing them one somebody gets sick from eating it.
This is stupid on its face. Any food not sold at a restaurant is either expired (as dictated by Austin city health standards) or contaminated in some way. No business wastes edible food that can be sold (and many businesses will still try to sell bad food).
Its one thing to have a composting law - its another and immoral to demand that you divert your meat and bread that the health department has declared as inedible to the homeless shelters as if its now suddenly fit for human consumption.
This is stupid, insidious, evil and more mindless millennialist tripe to make them feel good about themselves while not solving the problem of food supply or homelessness.