Help Bring A Food Waste Recycling Forum to Your County

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Food waste generators who start a food waste recycling program, save two ways: 1) economically by reducing their trash bills, and 2) environmentally by diverting their waste from landfills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group at the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station is bringing a detailed food waste recycling forum to each New Jersey county to acquaint food waste generators with the recycling options that would best suit local generators there.
Registration for each educational forum is free. Each forum provides nuts and bolts introductions on how to plan for and set up a food waste recycling program to receive the maximum economic and environmental benefits associated with food waste recycling.
SWRRG has now held forums in ten counties, and is working with other counties to hold forums from fall 2008 into the first half of 2009. If you are reading this, you can help bring a forum to your county. We will provide you the speakers, which include recycling systems experts such as John Connolly, Steve Mojo, and Mike Manna who can prepare generators to do waste audits, contract with haulers, create teams and do training, choose bins and avoid contaminating the recycling with things which cannot be accepted. Speakers will describe each of the food waste recycling facilities now in development, what food and other organic waste they will accept and what products they will manufacture. Other speakers will describe actual case studies and how to have your greenhouse gas savings calculated for you for free. Each forum provides information for local governmental representatives on how to support food waste recycling within their jurisdictions and the benefits of doing so.