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Article: Food residuals recovery in California
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- BioCycle
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright J.G. Press Inc. Sep 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A review of operational, pilot and planned municipal projects show that there's no single recipe for success. Main ingredients are starting small, partnering, educating and providing incentives.
EVERYDAY throughout California, produce wholesalers, grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals, school cafeterias, prisons, coffee shops, and other commercial/institutional food providers discard over 5,000 tons of vegetable, fruit and grain products. To meet the state's 50 percent recycling goal, food waste recovery is starting to occur in California municipalities.
An informal study by Applied Compost Consulting identified the following: Two cities have operating commercial food residuals recycling ...