Food Scraps Law Impact on Farms and Processors - Opportunities for Farm Participation

dc.contributor.author	Bockhahn, Jennifer
dc.contributor.author	Wright, Peter
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-20T17:02:24Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-20T17:02:24Z
dc.date.issued	2021-05
dc.description.abstract	Effective January 1st, 2022 New York State will implement new legislative guidance on food donation and scrap recycling – The Food Donation and Food Scrap Recycling Law1. The law will require the diversion of organics from landfills to human consumption, animal consumption, and then organics recycling. NYS dairy farms have the opportunity to accept food waste as animal feed, or to divert streams of organics as a digester feedstock. Brewers and distillers’ grains are a growing food processing waste source and there is potential for this material to be used in a dairy cow’s diet. A larger opportunity exists with farms willing to add food waste in their anaerobic digester (AD). Farms with an AD can harvest the energy and the nutrients from the food waste, and tipping fees may add to the farm revenue. There are significant opportunities for farms to participate as discussed below.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/103709
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Co-digestion	en_US
dc.subject	Anaerobic Digestion	en_US
dc.subject	food waste	en_US
dc.subject	feedstock	en_US
dc.subject	organics recycling	en_US
dc.title	Food Scraps Law Impact on Farms and Processors - Opportunities for Farm Participation	en_US
dc.type	fact sheet	en_US

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