ECL 27-2209 · Title 22. Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling
Food scraps disposal prohibition
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§ 27-2209. Food scraps disposal prohibition.
Incinerators and landfills shall take all reasonable precautions to not accept food scraps from designated food scraps generators required to send their food scraps to an organics recycler as outlined under section 27-2203 of this title, after January first, two thousand twenty-two, unless the designated food scraps generator has received a temporary waiver under subdivision three of section 27-2203 of this title.
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