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Northshore October 2025
Traditionally, in an average American commercial kitchen, more than 4,000 pounds of food waste are sent to landfills each week. The powerful greenhouse gas methane, which is a major culprit in global warming, is then emitted into the atmosphere by the waste. Beginning October 1, 2014, a Massachusetts-wide ban will take place, enforcing any entity disposing one ton or more of organic waste per week to deliver that waste to either a composting facility, an animal feed operation, or an anaerobic digestion plant for conversion to clean energy. Anaerobic digestion is a process widely used to convert landfill and greenhouse gases into renewable ene
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