"Lack of data leaves state flying blind in efforts to reduce food waste in landfills"

"The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services projects that if Granite Staters keep trashing their waste at the same rate, without changes to existing landfill capacity, the state will run out of places to put its refuse in about 10 years. 

Limited landfill capacity, in part due to huge amounts of imported trash from nearby states, is also driving up the tipping fees that municipalities have to pay when disposing of their waste.

One solution is to build more landfills. But, as Dalton residents made clear last year, those projects can be extremely unpopular with the people who have to live near them." read more