Food Waste Resources

• List of Regulated Large Food Scrap Generators
  • UC_Food-Waste-Law_2025-regulated-generators-LIST_9.30.24.pdf(PDF, 112KB)

• Center for Ecotechnology: Rethink Food Waste Ny Program
• • Rethink Food Waste NY provides free food waste solutions for New York businesses, municipalities, organic recyclers (composting, anaerobic digestion, etc.), food relief organizations, and others! Assistance is available at no cost!
  • Learn more about Rethink Food Waste NY and how to get started today.(link is external)
• Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA): 
• • Food Waste webpage
  • Compost Food at UCCRA webpage
  • Fee Schedule: PRICES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2021 (All prices subject to change)
  • Food Waste Haulers
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC): 
• • • Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Law: In 2019, NYS passed the Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling law. Effective January 1, 2022, large generators of food scraps (defined as generating an annual average of two tons per week or more) must donate excess edible food and recycle all remaining food scraps if they are within 25 miles of an organics recycler (composting facility, anaerobic digester, etc.). Generators may petition DEC for a one-year waiver to these requirements.
    • Organics Management for Businesses webpage
    • Donation & Other Resources:
    • • Tax Incentives for Food Donation in New York State - Legal Fact Sheet (PDF, 443 KB)
      • Liability Protections for Food Donors in New York State - Legal Fact Sheet (PDF, 276 KB)
      • Connect with one of the regional Food Banks across the state, a food pantry, soup kitchen or other meal center and start a conversation on how you can work together to get excess food to those who need it most.
      • Businesses may partner with farms to feed food scraps to animalssuch as bread, spent brewers grain, vegetable peels and trimmings.
      • Food processors can partner with farms to land apply food processing wastesuch as dairy whey, grape pomace, brewery waste, etc. to their fields.
  • New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I): 
  • • Organic Resource Locator
    • Food Waste Diversion
    • Food Waste Estimator Calculator
    • Food Waste Self-Assessment Toolkits: Separate toolkits for foodservice, grocery, and healthcare industries

• Food Bank of the Hudson Valley: Donate Food

• New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR): Strategies for Businesses & Institutions

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):