Yesterday I posted an item about California’s effort to recycle food scraps. Now, here’s a post about food composting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the city of Madison. In sum: it’s very challenging. Charlie Hildebrand and Riley Sumner write in Wisconsin Watch: “Before it was ultimately forced to shut down, UW-Madison’s composting program went…
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Families Are Saving Food Scraps in California. Why?
California is gearing up to carry out its 2016 organics recycling law. Under that law, families must separate not just recyclables from trash, but food waste from recyclables—so it can be composted. They will be fined if they don’t do it by 2024. Some of the compost is sold to farmers. However, according to Gosia…