Jan 7, 2015

Starting Jan. 1, it will be illegal to throw food and food waste in the trash in Seattle,

Starting Jan. 1, it will be illegal to throw food and food waste in the trash in Seattle, when a new bantakes effect to increase recycling and composting in the city.

Currently, Seattle residents are allowed to throw food and food waste – pizza boxes, dirty napkins, soiled paper towels – in the garbage. Residents are required to have a food and yard waste collection service, but they don't have to use it for food. (Backyard composters are exempt from that requirement.)

Similarly, multi-family building owners are required to provide a compost collection service for residents, but residents don't have to use it.

But on Jan. 1, Seattle will ban food and food waste in trash. 

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