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Association Leaders: Educating Pennsylvania Lawmakers and Regulators
June 3-4, 2008 | Harrisburg Hilton, Harrisburg, PA
Avoid the Pitfalls of a Future Food Waste Ban
by Composting Now!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | 2:30 - 3 p.m.
Presented by: Mark Smallwood, Green Mission Specialist,
Whole Foods Markets
 Whole Foods, Inc., a major retailer of natural and organic foods, is also a major composter of unusable food, floral and foodsoiled paper residuals. The company's innovative approach to food waste has led to significant reductions in the amount of waste disposed at participating stores. Heading up this effort is Green Mission Specialist Mark Smallwood. He will walk you through an attention-grabbing presentation, featuring the steps taken to get each new Whole Foods store online to compost food waste. From finding the appropriate farm/composting facility to work with, to ensuring that the compost stream is free of plastic, to getting employees to buy into the program — Smallwood covers all of the bases.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection anticipates that within the next decade, Pennsylvania will have a food waste ban in place for landfills. Other states such as Massachusetts have started to ban organic waste material from landfills by 2010. In July 2007, the Seattle City Council decreed that recycling of food waste will become mandatory for residents by April 2009. Find out how you can help your stores head a food waste ban off at the pass during this presentation.
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