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Legislation in Congress targets food waste

Published: December 15, 2015
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U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, talks with staff at We Compost It, which creates compost from residential and institutional food scraps.

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to create a federal grant program providing up to $100 million a year to build large-scale composting and anaerobic digestion facilities.

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Group says 10 percent of California redemption centers closed this year

Published: April 11, 2016
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California Flag / Joseph_Sohm, ShutterstockCalifornia has under-subsidized its container redemption centers to the tune of $43 million in recent years, leading a significant number of them to close, according to the Container Recycling Institute.

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