Efforts to recycle food waste ramping up in Connecticut

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Efforts to recycle tons of food waste in Connecticut are taking shape, with state officials granting the first permit for a new anaerobic digestion facility in Bridgeport four years after state legislators required certain commercial operations to recycle the organic material.

The 2011 law, which was later revised, required entities that generate about two tons of food waste per week, such as supermarkets, to separate and recycle "food residuals" beginning Jan. 1, 2014. The rule only applies, however, if they're located within 20 miles of a recycling facility.