{"id":57418,"date":"2018-10-08T06:59:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57418"},"modified":"2018-10-08T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:59:02","slug":"this-us-city-is-no-longer-sending-food-waste-to-landfills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/10\/08\/this-us-city-is-no-longer-sending-food-waste-to-landfills\/","title":{"rendered":"This US city is no longer sending food waste to landfills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city of Austin, Texas, is quite serious about meeting its goal of zero waste by 2040. Austin has enforced a new law from October 1 under which the restaurants in the city will no longer be allowed to send their food waste to landfills.<\/p>\n

Instead, the authorities have prescribed four methods of\u00a0organic waste diversion-<\/p>\n

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  1. feeding hungry people by\u00a0donating extra food<\/li>\n
  2. sending it to\u00a0be used for\u00a0animal feed to local animal farms or ranches<\/li>\n
  3. composting on-site or with\u00a0a private service provider<\/li>\n
  4. encouraging the development of customized solutions which diverts organic material from\u00a0landfills.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The ordinance also requires\u00a0that business owners\/managers provide regular education for employees and post informational signage. Additionally, they must submit an online Organic Diversion Plan each year.<\/p>\n

    A 2015 Diversion Study conducted in Austin revealed\u00a0that more than 85% of the city\u2019s trash and recycling comes from commercial businesses, multifamily properties and food service establishments. Of the materials sent to landfills, 37% is organic and could have been donated or composted.<\/p>\n

    Read more here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2018\/10\/no-foodscraps-to-landfill-says-new-austin-law\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The city of Austin, Texas, is quite serious about meeting its goal of zero waste by 2040. Austin has enforced a new law from October 1 under which the restaurants in the city will no longer be allowed to send their food waste to landfills. Instead, the authorities have prescribed four methods of\u00a0organic waste diversion- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}