The ordinance being proposed by Boston City Councilors Gabriela Coletta and Ricardo Arroyo would require food that vendors would otherwise throw away to be donated to nonprofits.
Under the ordinance, food vendors would have to donate their leftovers to organizations that feed hungry people instead of letting them end up at the landfill.Tier 1 would begin in 2025 and include large vendors -- grocery stores larger than 10,000 square feet; restaurants with at least 250 seats or larger than 5,000 square feet; hotels with at least 100 beds; and schools, colleges and local and state agencies.
She told NBC10 Boston that a lot of the plan was based off statewide programs that exist in California, New York and Washington. It would also build from a 2014 law in Massachusetts that limits how much food can be contributed to a landfill. "A lot of food that's wasted is still very much edible. You or I would eat that food, but it gets to the end of its date label, which many of those labels are about quality and not safety," said Broad Leib."This is really saying that there's a requirement on businesses to make sure that food that is edible is stored properly and gets to people who need it."
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