Local and global environmental impact of organic waste in landfills

By Erin J Murphy

I work for a new company in Portsmouth NH, BioGreen360, that is addressing the commercial food waste issue directly.  We manufacture organic waste digestion units for commercial industries such as hospitals, schools, supermarkets etc.  The negative environmental impact food waste has on our carbon footprint is becoming a bigger and bigger problem and agencies, both in the US and Worldwide, are now setting up initiatives and bans to help reduce the harmful methane and other gasses emitted from said waste.  Below are some links that will describe the bans/initiatives and further detail how great of an environmental impact food waste is causing.

I would love to see NH follow in the footsteps of MA, VT, NY and CA, to name a few, that have already implemented bans on commercial food waste being dumped into our landfills!

http://biogreen360.com/blog

http://www.biocycle.net/2014/09/30/californias-new-laws-to-accelerate-organics-recycling/

http://www.epa.gov/foodrecoverychallenge/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-apartments-condos-face-fines-for-food-scraps-on-july-1-1.3130325

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45084&Cr=food+security&Cr1=#.VaPihRFRHX5

http://www.thinkeatsave.org/

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