Composting
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Remote Monitoring Revolutionizes Composting During HPAI Outbreak
Composting has long been a tool to manage poultry carcasses during avian influenza outbreaks. Pilot data highlights how to maximize worker safety.
Food Waste
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Assessing California’s Edible Food Recovery Mandate
SB 1383 requires large food businesses such as supermarkets and wholesalers to donate their excess edible food to food recovery organizations, such as food banks.
AD & Biogas
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Anaerobic Digestion Key To California’s Dairy Sector’s Methane Reduction
Dairy Cares announced that the state's dairy farms will achieve an annual reduction of 5 million metric tons of methane (5 MMTCO2e/year) in 2025.
Markets
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Updated State-By-State Biogas Industry Tracker
Each state's fact sheet shows how the state ranks for its biogas potential, its current biogas output, the number of biogas projects that could be added, and feedstock available.
Climate
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Maine State Legislators Introduce Food Waste Disposal Ban
LD 1065 requires generators of more than 2 tons/week on average to stop disposing of food waste via landfill or incineration by July 1, 2027 …
Policies + Regulations
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Reuse Baked Into Washington EPR Law
The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law “updates the state’s recycling system and reduces unnecessary packaging, funds statewide collection services, and ensures materials put in curbside bins are recycled,” notes a Zero Waste Washington press release.