Bill > A4083

Introduced Session

This bill would authorize certain large food waste generators to send their food waste to sanitary landfill facilities for the purpose of generating Class I renewable energy or renewable natural gas. Under current law, beginning in October 2021, large food waste generators were required to source separate their food waste and send the food waste to an authorized food waste recycling facility, with certain exceptions. This bill provides that a large food waste generator will be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of this law if the large food waste generator sends its food waste for final disposal to a sanitary landfill facility that collects and delivers landfill gas to a gas-to-energy facility as fuel either for the generation of Class I renewable energy or for the generation of renewable natural gas that satisfies pipeline quality standards or transportation fuel grade requirements. The exemption would apply only so long as the large food waste generator continues to dispose of its food waste in this manner. "Class I renewable energy" is defined by existing law to include electric energy produced from methane gas from landfills.

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Edward Thomson (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee (on 05/26/2022)

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