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David Carrig reports for USA Today:
The fast food giant wants to have 100% of its customer packaging come from renewable, recycled, or certified sources and have recycling available in all its restaurants.
Currently, 50% of its guest packaging comes from sustainable sources and only 10% of its restaurants are recycling.
The company says it is making this move in response to customer demand and its desire to help reduce waste and have a positive community impact.
“Our customers have told us that packaging waste is the top environmental issue they would like us to address,” Francesca Debiase, McDonald’s chief supply chain and sustainability officer, said in a statement.
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Any commercial establishment that generates an average two tons or more per week of excess food and food scraps would be required to arrange for recovery and recycling by Jan. 2021.
Generators in New York City would be excluded because of pre-existing local policy. Othergenerators may receive short-term exemptions for food scrap recycling if no processing options are available within a 40-mile radius or if they can prove costs would be higher than disposal.
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In the final hours of his expiring term as governor, Chris Christie signed these environment and energy bills into law:
S848 /A5339 (Stack, Oroho / Mukherji, Chaparro) – Requires certain State oversight of budgets of regional sewerage authorities
S2076 /A3398 (Bateman, Smith / Caride, Space, Taliaferro, Dancer, Houghtaling) – Requires pesticide applicator to notify beekeeper when applying pesticide within three miles of registered honey or native beehive or beeyard
S2078 / A3400 (Bateman, Smith / Caride, Dancer, Taliaferro, Space, McKeon, Houghtaling) – Requires training for pesticide applicators and operators concerning pollinating bees
S2180 (Oroho) – “New Jersey Rural Electric Cooperative Act”
S2389 /A4097 (A.R. Bucco, Oroho, Pennacchio / A.M. Bucco, Space, Phoebus, DeCroce, Webber, McKeon) – Establishes Lake Hopatcong Fund and dedicates $500,000 annually from certain power vessel operator license fees to the fund
S2400 / ACS for A1616 (Cruz-Perez, Allen / Burzichelli, Dancer, Taliaferro, A.M. Bucco) – Authorizes use of tracking dog to search for and recover wild deer during prescribed hunting season
S3026 /A4634 (Smith, Thompson / Lampitt, Eustace, Zwicker) – Clarifies and expands liability protections for food donations and gleaning activities
S3521 / A5194 (Gordon, Oroho / Eustace, Rooney, Holley, Wisniewski) – Allows expanded use of recycled asphalt pavement
S3568 / 5320 (Codey, Turner / Andrzejczak, Zwicker, Houghtaling) – Appropriates $19,266,145 to State Agriculture Development Committee for farmland preservation purposes
S3570 / A5318 (Van Drew, Oroho / Houghtaling, Downey, Taliaferro, Andrzejczak) – Appropriates $1,737,902 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes
S3573 / A5317 (Bell, Bateman / Mazzeo, Singleton, Andrzejczak, Zwicker, Houghtaling) – Appropriates $7.5 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes
S3575 / A5321 (Ruiz, Allen / Muoio, Land, McKeon, Jones, Zwicker) – Appropriates $4,990,934 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects
S3595 / A5319 (Sweeney / Taliaferro, Burzichelli, Houghtaling) – Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grant for farmland preservation purposes
S3616 / A3931 (Sarlo / Singleton, Holley) – Provides exception to weight limits for natural gas vehicles consistent with federal law
A1954 / S1237 (Coughlin, Benson, Mukherji, Pintor Marin / Vitale) – Makes changes to funding provisions for financial assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund
A2204 / S3355 (Eustace, Benson, Zwicker, Wimberly / Gordon, Cruz-Perez) – Authorizes virtual net metering for certain electric public utility customers connected to certain hydropower facilities and resource recovery facilities
A3055 / S2444 (Space, Houghtaling, Dancer, Phoebus / Addiego, Oroho) – Authorizes counties to issue promotional labeling for county agricultural products
A4787 / S3285 (Andrzejczak, Houghtaling, Taliaferro, Mazzeo, Space / Van Drew, Cruz-Perez) – Authorizes alternate members for farmers on State Agriculture Development Committee
A4868 / S3259 (Moriarty, Eustace, Kennedy / Greenstein, Thompson) – Extends warranty for partial zero emission vehicles
POCKET VETOES
The governor took no action on other bills. At the end of a
two-year session, this constitutes a ‘pocket veto.’ The bills included:
A-3732 — Directs Dept. of Agriculture to authorize and
advise food hubs. Related Bill: S-2822
A-4439 — Prohibits sale and distribution of mercury relays
and switches under certain circumstances.
S-3317 — Requires NJ to join U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold
Paris Climate Accord. Related Bill: A-5040
S-3012 — Allows NJ gross income tax deduction for charitable contributions of food made from business inventory. Related Bill: A-2753
S-2872 — Provides certain incentives to qualified businesses in Garden State Growth Zones; creates Garden State Growth
Zone at Atlantic City International Airport and surrounding
area. Related Bill: A-4510
S-2276 — Modifies State’s solar renewable energy portfolio
standards. Related Bill: A-3918
A-3295 — Concerns low emission and zero emission
vehicles; establishes Clean Vehicle Task Force.
Related Bill: S-985
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