Austin All food enterprises in Austin are now required to recycle compost-able material by 2017 after Austin City Council amended an ordinance April 25.
Dustin Fedako, co-founder of East Side Compost Pedallers, spoke at the council meeting in favor of the changes.
"There's an enormous opportunity for our city to move toward zero-waste [status] by taking advantage of finding a better place in the landfill for these resources," Fedako said.
Compostable materials are organic materials that can be decomposed under controlled conditions to be reused as fertilizer.
