After 16 months of tedious planning, Austin, Texas, is rolling out new legislation that will require all restaurants, grocery stores and other food businesses compost food scraps by 2017. "The Austin Restaurant Association was very involved in the stakeholder meetings over this," said Aiden Cohen, environmental conservation program manager for Austin Resource Recovery. "Their feedback and their concerns were instrumental in developing an ordinance that was reasonable, yet effective in helping us move toward our zero waste goals."
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