Opinion
Lawmakers: Don’t trash food recycling efforts
A landfill gas collection site in Sunnyvale. (Photo: Michael Vi, via Shutterstock)OPINION: Reducing the amount of organic waste that is buried in California landfills is an environmental imperative. As state policy mandates, something has to be done to choke back the production of methane, the gas that is generated when table scraps, yard clippings and other organic materials decompose underground.