BOSTON — Massachusetts environmental officials want to ban hospitals, universities, hotels, large restaurants, and other big businesses and institutions from throwing food waste in the trash, a move that could eventually be extended to households.
Officials said the proposal is designed to save space in landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions created by decomposition.
They told The Boston Globe that the measure would divert one-third of the nearly 1.4 million tons of organic waste produced every year in Massachusetts to composting facilities that would convert the waste into energy and fertilizer.
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