The law will only apply to facilites that generate over 2 tons of food waste a week, places like prisons, large grocery stores, universities, or some farms.
Susan Powers, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Environment at Clarkson University, says a good food waste system requires coordination.
“You need to have the composting or digester business going. You need to have the business that picks up and delivers the waste to the food waste recycling facility,” she said. When all of those pieces are in place, Powers said, “that food waste has become great quality and sifted composted soil or it might be biogas from an anaerobic digester that’s an energy resource.”