SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
SENATE, No. 2730
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: JUNE 9, 2022
The Senate Environment and Energy Committee favorably reports
Senate Bill No. 2730.
This bill would require each solid waste management district in the
State (i.e., each county and the Hackensack Meadowlands District) to
develop, as part of its district solid waste management plan, a strategy
to reduce food waste in the district.
Specifically, this bill would require each solid waste management
district to develop and implement a strategy for reducing, by the year
2030, the amount of food waste generated annually in the district by at
least 50 percent of the amount which is generated in the year this bill is
enacted into law. The strategy would be adopted as an amendment to
each district’s solid waste management plan and subject to the
approval of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
The bill would also require the DEP to develop, and publish on its
Internet website, a list of measures solid waste management districts
can take in order to achieve the food waste reduction requirement
established in the bill. These measures would include actions to
prevent food waste and increase the donation of surplus edible food,
the source separation and recycling of food waste, composting and
anaerobic digestion of food waste, and public awareness campaigns.