PBN on WJAR-TV, July 30, 2018

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FINISHED PRODUCT: Sam Fox, a former assistant manager at Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, shows a handful of finished compost. The farm is the state’s largest facility at which commercial-scale food-waste producers can divert materials to keep them out of the Central Landfill in Johnston.
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
FINISHED PRODUCT: Sam Fox, a former assistant manager at Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, shows a handful of finished compost. The farm is the state’s largest facility at which commercial-scale food-waste producers can divert materials to keep them out of the Central Landfill in Johnston. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

With its only landfull nearing capacity, Rhode Island is off to a slow start trying to curb food waste

Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears on WJAR-TV NBC 10’s Coffee Break to discuss the newspaper’s most recent cover story and other issues with Sunrise and Noon News Anchor Frank Coletta.

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This week Murphy and Coletta discuss PBN staff writer Emily Gowdey-Backus’ examination of the state’s plans to divert food waste from the Central Landfill to create either compost or generate electricity, in a piece titled “Food-waste ban isn’t working – yet.”

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