From Crain's:The Bloomberg administration hopes to introduce legislation requiring hospitals, hotels, universities and other large-scale producers of food waste to make it into something useful rather than just send it to landfills or incinerators, sources told The Insider.
A bill could be introduced next month and passed before Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn leave office at the end of the year. But it would not take effect until at least 2015, and only then if food-waste processing facilities could handle the enormous quantities of food that institutions throw away. Food waste accounts for a third of the city's more than 20,000 tons of daily refuse.
A spokesman for the mayor's office did not respond to an inquiry about the plan. A City Council spokeswoman said the administration has told the council about the effort but has not shared a bill or enough detail for the speaker's office to be able to comment yet. However, Ms. Quinn has been vocal about expanding composting in the city and has indicated a desire to pass a great deal of legislation before her term expires.
Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts have already adopted bans on sending commercial food waste to landfills, though it is too soon to know if they are effective because their trigger mechanisms have yet to kick in: Until sufficient processing capacity is available, businesses are off the hook.
13 comments:
Not a bad idea. How about a ban on political waste too.
Damned if you want more soda, and damned if you don't finish your plate - Bloomberg's more polarizing than a battery.
What's the useful thing that food waste can be transformed into?
Does this make any economic sense? It's Quinn - of course not.
I think composting is a myth. Every time I've tried to compost food waste in my backyard, I've ended up with food waste in my backyard. A little smellier for sure, but no more useful.
How about recycling baby diapers while we're at it.
I propose a communal latrine in every neighborhood in the city. Why flush away good human solid waste and effluvia?
"The Mike Bloomberg Municipal Turd Depository"
He did say that he wanted something named after him. Why not?
Blogger georgetheatheist said...
"The Mike Bloomberg Municipal Turd Depository"
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Anonymous Gary the Agnostic said...
He did say that he wanted something named after him. Why not?
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I object, for God's sakes!
What are hizzoner's plans for making something useful of himself, after he's kicked out of city hall?
Bye, bye, Bloomberg! It's been 12 brutally long years.
Now we can all take a little breather that "Clairol" Chrissy Quinn's plans to occupy Mike's seat have been dashed too! Maybe with her bright red dye job, she can become a mascot of the FDNY.
Most pols ARE living compost!
A communal latrine in every neighborhood will promote civic comity and co-operation. A citizenry that shits together, sits together. Plus it will be great for the "green" environment. Just like annual leaf collection! And there's a fortune to be made in fecal fertilizer.
Food waste should be feedstock for farming edible insect protein as bovine flatulence is a major source of greenhouse gases
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