Why your food scraps travel more than 100 miles — and how an L.A. council member wants to stop it
Los Angeles City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield is pushing a new motion to keep residents’ food scraps local, expanding composting facilities instead of trucking banana peels to Bakersfield and Lancaster.
The aim is to cut greenhouse gases from roughly 350,000 tons of organic waste a year and help Los Angeles finally comply with California’s ambitious Senate Bill 1383 composting mandates.