ELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out. But on a recent day, Rafferty, the store manager for ShopRite of Elmsford-Greenburgh in New York, was preparing boxes of bread, donuts, fresh produce and dairy products to be picked up by a food […]
When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn't sold got tossed out. It's part of a statewide program requiring larger businesses to donate edible food and, if they can, recycle remaining food scraps. “Years ago, everything went in the garbage . to the landfills, the compactors or wherever it was,” said Rafferty, who has 40 years in the industry.
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A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems
New York is among a growing number of states targeting food waste over concerns it is taking up diminishing landfill space and contributing to global warming as meat, vegetables and dairy release the greenhouse gas methane after being dumped in a landfill.