Dive summary:
- More than 100 New York restaurants have agreed to participate in Mayor Michael Boomberg’s plan to reduce food waste in New York.
- The participating restaurants are pushing to reduce the amount of food waste they send to the landfill by 50% by composting and recycling.
- Bloomberg also announced plans to expand a composting pilot program in Manhattan and Brooklyn schools to all New York City schools in the next two years.
From the article:
They will accomplish this goal by composting and recycling, Mr. Bloomberg said in a speech during the New York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference, at TheTimesCenter.
“Food wastes make up about a third of our city’s total of more than 20,000 tons of daily refuse,” the mayor said. Restaurants, he added, account for 70 percent of commercial food waste.
Mr. Bloomberg told the audience that the conference’s caterer, Cleaver Company, had also joined the challenge. ...
