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• n  food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

• garbage
• refuse
• scraps

News & Articles

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• NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's next mandate: Food waste recycling
  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's has ramped up his regulatory push in his final days of office and has a new endeavor — another one — to bring about a city filled with healthy people: food waste recycling. Food waste is "New York City's final recycling frontier," he said, ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Washington Times
• Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste
  The Bloomberg administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year, or about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.
  June 16, 2013 - New York Times
• City to Roll Out A Recycling Plan For Food Waste
  The Bloomberg administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year, or about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.
  June 16, 2013 - New York Times