A recently decided case out of Connecticut provides a useful examination of how antitrust standing issues may be analyzed in cases involving commercially-insured patients directly suing.
Plans to close MIRA in 2022 will force big changes in our local waste disposal. That means that more towns are having to pay more to send trash to the disposal,” said Dykes. “Or even having to rely on sending trash out of state to landfills to get rid of our trash.
But, there is good news.
Dykes explained, we have a lot of solutions that are good for the environment and more economical that we can move towards to address this crisis.
In response, Commissioner Dykes created the Connecticut Coalition for Sustainable Materials Management. A group effort between DEEP and more than 80 towns to figure out the best next steps.
Food waste is a fact of life. Also a fact is that it’s smelly, wet and heavy. It makes a mess out of the rest of the trash and is generally nasty.
Getting food waste out of the trash may also provide the key to how Connecticut repairs the dated, expensive, fragmented and environmentally fraught waste systems in the state. But the question is whether it makes more sense to get the food out of the waste stream first or whether other parts of the system get fixed first so the food part follows.
It’s a chicken-egg problem, and which comes first isn’t clear. What is clear, officials say, is that food waste cannot be ignored any longer.