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Food waste recycling in NYC?
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A NYC sign with details of what may be added to organics collection sites

I feel like we’ve been beating a dead horse for a while re: food waste disposal, but there doesn’t seem to be any escaping it these days. Yesterday’s New York Times had an article about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest cause – food waste separation from the general waste stream.

The article highlights the success of a food waste separation pilot program in NYC as well as the city’s hope to roll out a near-term voluntary program followed by a longer term mandatory program. According to Eric A. Goldstein, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC is the group behind this recent report which we highlighted on this blog in September 2012) who is quoted in the article, “If successful, pretty soon there’ll be very little trash left for homeowners to put in their old garbage cans.” Isn’t that what we’re all hoping for?

Emphasizing the cutting edge role that Biogas Energy Partners is already playing in this arena is the suggestion that within the next 12 months, the Bloomberg administration will solicit proposals to build a biogas facility outside NYC to process residents’ food waste into electricity. For a city as large as NYC to consider a project like this further legitimizes the work BEP has been doing over the past couple of years – we knew we were on to something!

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