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work needed for the globalization of post-composted materials.
That’s where the infrastructure devel- opment piece comes into play. “Vermont had a lot of challenges around imple- mentation of its composting regulations, because it didn’t have the infrastructure to
be able to handle the food scrap volume that was coming out of commercial food retailers. That [factor] is something we expressed concerns about in New York and in other markets where we faced this kind of legislation activity,” says Mausert. “To that extent, we know we are compliant
with state food waste separation and land ll diversion requirements in three states, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut,” he says, adding, “we are strongly considering pilots in New York.”
The chain recently became a U.S. EPA Food Recovery Challenge (FRC) partici-
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