While well-intentioned, the first several states attempting to divert food waste from landfills and incinerators posted just a 20% success rate, according to a study published Friday.
A green food waste bin in an alley of North Park, San Diego, Feb. 12, 2023. The city of San Diego and private trash haulers are rolling out a new organic waste disposal program.
"We can say with high confidence that the combination of waste bans did not reduce landfilled waste by more than 3%, and that is including Massachusetts, which successfully reduced landfilled waste by 7% — gradually achieving a 13.2% reduction," said Robert Evan Sanders, assistant professor of marketing at the Rady School and coauthor of the paper."Essentially, the data suggest that in four out of the five states we studied, these laws did nothing to reduce waste.
— Has the easiest-to-understand language in its ban of any of the states studied, with the fewest exceptions; and According to the study, the authors compared states with band to similar states without and projected how much waste would have gone into landfills if not for the bans.
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