New Dining Policy Reduces Food Waste

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Thanksgiving is gone, but the leftovers aren't! Most of us have been slowly making our way through the containers of stuffing and potatoes for the past few days but there is only so much turkey one person can handle.  Thus, our once delicious leftovers make their inevitable trip to the trash.  As a result, food waste piles up. 

Food waste is a major problem in the United States.  Many times, we bite off more than we can chew, other times it seems that the portions we are served are oversized.  The Los Angeles Times stated that almost 40 percent of the nation's food supply is thrown away. 

Some restaurant owners have developed their own solution to the problem by charging diners a fee for uneaten food.  For "all-you-can-eat" style restaurants this seems like a reasonable request.  Isn't a buffet only worth the money if you are going to eat as much as you want without waste?

While this solution has gotten negative feedback from some patrons, it is rather commendable that restaurant owners are going to such great lengths to eliminate food waste.  Other solutions include recovering good food from the trash and recycling leftovers for composting and energy generating. 


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NYC Restaurant Challenge

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New York City is one of a handful of cities that is working to keep food waste out of landfills.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a lot to do with the recycling efforts of many of NYC's citizens.   This year 100 if the city's 24,000 restaurants signed on to the city's voluntary pilot program and committed to recycle their food scraps.  Mayor Bloomberg has recently introduced legislation to the city council to mandate the City's largest restaurants to separate their food waste by 2014.  The head of the New York State Restaurant Association worries that the infrastructure is just not available to accomplish this lofty goal. Find out more about the NYC Restaurant Challenge: Recycle All Food Waste here: http://goo.gl/5vwt91

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Seperating Your Food Waste May not Always Be Optional In New York

Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.

Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656

www.BoroWideRecycling.com

According to an article in the New York Times New York is preparing to create an ambitious plan to encourage residents and businesses to separate their food waste from other trash.  This will be initiated voluntarily at first, as they do with their paper, metal and plastics.  Mayor Bloomberg recently announced that the city will expand its pilot program for food waste recycling, in an effort to catch up to the 180 cities and local governments that already offer curbside pickup of food scraps.  Some of the most determined communities are moving toward less frequent garbage collection as they steer residents away from the conventional black trash bin.  San Francisco has already seen some success with food waste recycling which started on a voluntary basis but became mandatory in 2009.  They gave their citizens an incentive, by charging for trash pick up but not for recyclables.  Maybe New York will do something similar.  

Mayor Bloomberg announced some of the details of the planned expansion of the pilot food waste recycling program which is already taking place in schools, residences in Staten Island and select high-rises in Manhattan.  He also stated that food waste will  be collected in neighborhoods in Brooklyn this Fall and some neighborhoods in the Bronx by the Spring.

Expect to see changes in the way we recycle in New York coming soon.  For more updates like us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter.