The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintians a detailed analysis of how to effectively recycle food scraps and yard waste for municipalitites and large organizations. The article and report, which can be found on their website, provides an overview of some of the best practices employed by large national corpoarations such as Stop & Shop, Hannaford’s, and Anheuser-Busch. In each case, compactors play a vital role in handling large volumes of organic waste.
The EPA is targeting large-scale recycling of food scraps and yard waste to help increase the nationwide recycling rate to 35%. Right now, these two categories account for 25% of the total municipal solid waste in the USA. To handle this waste stream, the number of collection and recycling programs increased in the 1990s, but the recovery rate is still low with only 2.5% of food scraps being recycled. The EPA’s goal is to double the recovery rate to 5 percent.
Read the full article and report at: .