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Hamilton County outlines plan to cut food waste 50% by 2030, highlights rescue and composting progress
Summary
On the county podcast, Resource Hamilton County’s food diversion specialist said food is the largest single waste item in local landfills, described household composting options and commercial rescue successes, and cited a county target to halve food waste by 2030.
Tony Staubach, Resource Hamilton County’s food diversion specialist, told listeners on the county podcast that “wasted food is the number one item that winds up in the landfill,” and urged residents and businesses to treat edible food as a recoverable resource rather than trash.
Stressing both environmental and human consequences, Staubach said the county’s analysis puts food and organics at roughly 15% of Hamilton County’s waste stream — below a national 20–25% range but still substantial — and estimated the county produces on the order of 130,000 tons of wasted organics a year. "We had 10,000 tons of food scraps that were recovered and…
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