Bill > A2090

Introduced Session

This bill would require each solid waste management district in the State (i.e., each county and the Hackensack Meadowlands District) to develop, as part of its district solid waste management plan, a strategy to reduce food waste in the district. Specifically, this bill would require each solid waste management district to develop and implement a strategy for reducing, by the year 2030, the amount of food waste generated annually in the district by at least 50 percent of the amount which is generated in the year this bill is enacted into law. The strategy would be adopted as an amendment to each district's solid waste management plan and subject to the approval of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The bill would require the DEP to develop, and publish on its Internet website, a list of measures solid waste management districts can take in order to achieve the food waste reduction requirement established in the bill. These measures would include actions to prevent food waste and increase the donation of surplus edible food, the source separation and recycling of food waste, the composting and anaerobic digestion of food waste and other food waste diversion methods that also reduce methane emissions, and public awareness campaigns.

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Jim Kennedy (D)*,  Sterley Stanley (D)*,  Anthony Verrelli (D)*,  Alixon Collazos-Gill (D),  Roy Freiman (D),  Garnet Hall (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  Lisa Swain (D), 

Reported and Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 03/04/2024)

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