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An important part of any successful food scrap collection or zero-waste program is effective signage. Having effective sort signs is essential to the success of these programs as they help eliminate confusion resulting in less contamination and increased participation. Often times, sort signs can be generic creating confusion and sort anxiety. Natur-Tec®, can help optimize your sort signs with our Natur-Bag® Custom Sign Generator. Contact us to learn how it works and to create your own signs!

Consumers and residents are increasingly patronizing businesses that practice sustainable initiatives. Natur-Tec® has created a Food Scrap Conversion Calculator that helps you tell your story! The Food Scrap Conversion Calculator provides real life context through various carbon equivalencies to the amount of food scraps collected and diverted from landfills. This tool helps show how vital it is to ensure that food scraps are not only sent to the proper facilities but how critical it is to control, and even reduce, the amount of food scraps generated.

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As of January 1, 2015, in accordance to Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) 21.36.082 and 21.36.083, the City of Seattle no longer allows food and compostable paper, including food-soiled pizza boxes, paper napkins and paper towels, in the garbage.

Please visit www.seattle.gov for more details.

This document is not intended to present this policy in its entirety.


City of Seattle Food Waste Ban

Business owners and property managers must provide convenient food and yard waste service and recycling service at their property. Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) gives warning notices for garbage containers that contain significant amounts (more than 10% by volume) of recyclables or food waste. For each warning, the property will receive a tag on the container and a notice will be mailed to the account. After two warnings, properties may receive a $50 fee on their waste bill.

Self-haul businesses and customers are also prohibited from disposing recyclables, yard debris, food scraps, and compostable paper as garbage at city transfer stations.

Did You Know?

Food waste is the second largest category of municipal solid waste (MSW) sent to landfills in the United States, accounting for approximately 18% of the waste stream.That is over 30 million tons of food waste that the U. S. sends to the landfills each year. Food scraps are a valuable resource. When diverted from a landfill to an industrial compost facility, food scraps will convert into compost, a nutrient rich soil amendment helping the overall health of the soil.

Additionally, compost absorbs three times the amount of water than untreated standard soil, acts as a water filter (helping watersheds, water runoff, etc.), and improves soil structure and porosity.

How Will This Legislation Affect You?

Businesses and commercial entities will need to expand their recycling programs to include food scrap collection and organic recycling. Setting up these programs will require, but not limited to, arranging contracts with waste haulers, establishing dedicated sort stations and signage, on-going employee training, and engagement. The use of compostable products (such as liners, food service wares, etc.) will help participation by eliminating sort anxiety and will reduce contamination concerns.

Natur-Bag® liners are ideal solutions where organic waste and food scraps are collected such as cafeterias, kitchens, coffee stations, restrooms (paper towel), etc. at the following market targets:

• Class A Office buildings with LEED® initiatives• Universities and colleges• School districts (K-12)• Grocery stores

• Municipalities• Restaurants• Sporting venues

• Sporting venues• Wineries• Festivals, Farmer Markets, etc.

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Using the right-sized compostable liner for your food scrap collection efforts helps reduce cost and waste. Use the Natur-Bag® Right-Sizing Liner Calculator to determine which liner makes the most sense for your bins. With a large breadth of stock liners available, we have you covered!


Beginning in October 2018 as part of House Bill 1349, plastic products labeled as compostable will not be allowed to be sold in the state of Maryland unless they meet the American Section of the International Association for Testing Materials (ASTM) biodegradability standards and the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) labeling guides as found in their Green Guides.

This bill will also require labeling and appearance modifications for compostable bags, as well as food and drink packaging, in order for these products to look different from their non-compostable counterparts. Bags which are labeled compostable will not be allowed to simultaneously be marketed as recyclable.

Important Maryland Labeling Law

A second bill, House Bill 0171 titled the Yard Waste and FoodResiduals Diversion and Infrastructure Act, will require the MarylandDepartment of the Environment (MDE) to study and recommend ways to boost composting in the state of Maryland.

This department will study the diversion rates of food scraps and yarddebris in Maryland, will conduct an infrastructure review for landfilldiversion, explore new methods of encouraging composting and diversionstrategies, and more.

This department is also tasked with delivering recommendations to boost organics diversion and identifying a pilot program by reviewing existing programs in other states.

Maryland Statewide Study This document is not intended to present these policies in their entirety.

Please visit www.naturbag.com/legislation for more details on House Bills 1349 and 0171.

Food waste is the second largest category of municipal solid waste (MSW) sent to landfills in the United States, accounting for approximately 18% of the waste stream.That is over 35 million tons of food waste that the U.S. sends to thelandfills each year which generates over 20 metric tons of greenhouse gasemissions, the third largest greenhouse gas contributor. Food scraps are avaluable resource. When diverted from a landfill to an industrial compost facility,

food scraps will convert into compost, a nutrient rich soil amendment helping the overall health of the soil.


Did You Know?

By 2025, all Boulder city entities* must recycle and compost 85% of their waste. To help enable these efforts, the Boulder City Council adopted a Universal Zero Waste Ordinance (Boulder Revised Code Title 6, Chapter 3 and Title 6, Chapter 12) to expand recycling and composting to all Boulder residents, employees and visitors by requiring the following:


City of Boulder Zero Waste Ordinance

• All single-family homeowners subscribe to waste hauling services by June 2016; • All property managers provide adequate trash, recycling and composting service to their tenants and occupants by June 2016; • All businesses separate recyclables and compostables from the trash; providing properly placed containers and signage to facilitate the collection of recyclables and compostables by September 2016; • All special events in Boulder provide both recycling and composting collection by June 2016; • All recyclable materials be directed to the Boulder County Recycling Center, with a provision allowing the city manager to set conditions under which clean, pre-sorted paper may be sold elsewhere.

Did You Know?

Food waste is the second largest category of municipal solid waste (MSW) sent to landfills in the United States, accounting for approximately 18% of the waste stream.That is over 30 million tons of food waste that the U. S. sends to the landfills each year. Food scraps are a valuable resource. When diverted from a landfill to an industrial compost facility, food scraps will convert into compost, a nutrient rich soil amendment helping the overall health of the soil.



Businesses and commercial entities will need to expand their recycling programs to include food scrap collection and organic recycling. Setting up these programs will require, but not limited to, arranging contracts with waste haulers, establishing dedicated sort stations and signage, on-going employee training, and engagement. The use of compostable products (such as liners, food service wares, etc.) will help participation by eliminating sort anxiety and will reduce contamination concerns.





the city of boulder is looking to go by 85 percent diversion by 2025. In an effort to support that

*This includes residents, businesses, etc.

This document is not intended to present this policy in its entirety. Please visit www.bouldercolorado.gov for more details.

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This document is not intended to present these laws in their entirety.

Please visit www.naturbag.com/legislation and www.leginfo.ca.gov for more detail on

these important California state laws.

In California, compostable materials including food and vegetative materials, account for more than 20 percent of the statewide disposed waste stream1. Of these materials, food is the largest component. In effort to reduce the amount of these organic materials going to landfill, and to help reduce methane emissions2, the California state legislature has passed two important bills: ABc341 (2011) and AB 1826 (2014).

Important California State Laws


Businesses and commercial entities will be required to establish recycling programs to meet diversion goals established in these bills. Setting up these programs will require, but not limited to, arranging contracts with waste haulers, establishing dedicated sort stations and signage, on-going employee training, and engagement. The use of compostable products (such as liners, food service wares, etc.) will help participation by eliminating sort anxiety and will reduce contamination concerns.

6’Typical 2 cubic yard dumpster often used to collect organic waste.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

8 cubic yards or more of organic waste per week

2 cubic yards or more of total solids waste per week

4 cubic yards or more of organics waste per week

4 cubic yards or more of total solid waste per week

This graphic illustrates the collection quantity progression per AB 1826.

ABc341 (2011) sets a statewide goal for 75% disposal reduction by the year 2020, but does not mandate a diversion goal for businesses. However, it does require that businesses implement a commercial recycling program.

AB 1826 (2014) establishes a mandatory commercial organic waste diversion program, requiring businesses that generate a specified quantity of organic waste to arrange for recycling services. This bill goes into effect January 1, 2016 with staggered implementation through 2019.

1 - California 2008 Statewide Waste Characterization Study

2 - Methane is a harmful greenhouse gas byproduct of organics decomposing in landfills. It is considered to have a high Global Warming Potential, 22 times greater than that of Carbon Dioxide.

Did You Know?

Food waste is the second largest category of municipal solid waste (MSW) sent to landfills in the United States, accounting for approximately 18% of the waste stream.That is over 35 million tons of food waste that the U. S. sends to the landfills each year. Food scraps are a valuable resource. When diverted from a landfill to an indus-trial compost facility, food scraps will convert into compost, a nutrient rich soil amend-ment helping the overall health of the soil.



Policy Drivers and ConsiderationsBased on various city and industry waste characterization studies, over 31% of what is in landfill can be considered organic and diverted to a compost and/or an anaerobic digesters (AD) facility. This includes food waste, yard clippings, and compostable paper waste. According to plaNYC, New York City has a stated goal to achieve 75% solid waste diversion from landfill by 2020 for both residential and commercial. To achieve this diversion goal, both recycling and organic collection programs must be implemented.

In effort to meet these landfill diversion goals, New York City has implemented an important legal measure as defined below:

Organic Collection Laws for NYC


Businesses and commercial entities will be required to establish recycling programs to meet diversion goals established in this bill. Setting up these programs will require, but not limited to, arranging contracts with waste haulers, establishing dedicated sort stations and signage, on-going employee training, and engagement. The use of compostable products (such as liners, food service wares, etc.) will help participation by eliminating sort anxiety and will reduce contamination concerns.





Local Law 146 of 2013: Commercial Organic Collection ProgramBeginning July 19, 2016, certain New York City businesses will be required by law to separate their organic waste. If your business meets the minimumrequirements outlined below, you must comply with the business organics rules.

Establishments covered by Business Organics Rules:• All food service establishments in hotels with 150 or more rooms• All food service vendors in arenas and stadiums with seating capacity of at least 15,000 people• Food manufacturers with a floor area of at least 25,000 square feet• Food wholesalers with a floor area of at least 20,000 square feet

Did You Know? Disposal fees for landfill in New York City exceed $100 per tip (referred to as a “tipping fee”) while similar disposal fees to compost facilities can be up to less than half of that amount!

Businesses covered by this proposal are given the option to arrange for collection by a private carter, transport organic waste themselves, or process the material on site. Suitable processing methods include composting and aerobic/anaerobic digestion. A food waste grinder is not permitted.

This document is not intended to present these policies in their entirety.

Please visit www.naturbag.com/legislation for more details on Local Law 146 of 2013

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