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Will County officials discuss state bills to study and restrict food waste; no vote taken
Summary
Will County staff and board members discussed two Illinois bills — a composting study (1397) and a proposed food-waste ban (1398) — focusing on infrastructure limits, potential costs, and market demand. No formal county vote or mandate was recorded; board members asked staff to work with lobbyists on language and possible county positions.
Will County Solid Waste staff and county board members spent more than an hour discussing two state-level proposals on food-scrap composting and a potential ban on sending food waste to landfills, focusing on infrastructure, cost, and market questions.
The county’s Solid Waste presenter, Dave Hartke, told the committee the proposals align with goals in the county’s solid waste plan and emphasized that “there’s not enough infrastructure in the state for us to say we could ban food scraps,” while describing one bill (No. 1397) as a study to examine how to use compost more effectively and the other (No. 1398) as a draft ban on food waste to landfills that would include phased distance and time goals.
Why it matters: county staff said the two-county compost infrastructure now in Will County cannot immediately absorb curbside or universal food-scrap collection. Board members pressed staff on who would pay collection costs and how programs would affect multi‑family housing, townships and unincorporated…
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