{"id":23152,"date":"2025-05-05T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=23152"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:41:03","slug":"maryland-hb42-sb134-2025","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/maryland-hb42-sb134-2025","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Bill to Fund Wasted Food Reduction and Diversion Reintroduced for 2025"},"template":"","class_list":["post-23152","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-state-policy","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-community-composting","topics-infrastructure","topics-on-farm-composting","authors-sophia-jones"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":1712,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[36],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[89,99,42],"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"

ILSR\u2019s Composting for Community policy team has once again worked with Maryland Delegate Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal Surcharge and Wasted Food Reduction and Diversion Fund and Grant Programs Bill (HB 42) for Maryland\u2019s 2025 legislative session.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n","authors_tax":[629]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"ILSR\u2019s Composting for Community policy team worked with Delegate Regina T. Boyce (District 43, Baltimore City) again to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal Surcharge and Wasted Food Reduction and Diversion Fund and Grant Programs Bill (<\/span>HB 42<\/span><\/a>) for Maryland\u2019s 2025 legislative session. The bill was cross-filed in the Senate (<\/span>SB 134<\/span><\/a>) by Senator Katie Fry Hester (District 9, Howard and Montgomery Counties). 2025 was this bill\u2019s fourth round in the Maryland legislature. Earlier versions of this bill included <\/span>HB1070<\/span><\/a> (2022), <\/span>HB1139<\/span><\/a> (2023), and <\/span>HB1318<\/span><\/a> (2024).<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn Maryland, the grants could total more than $14 million per year to support local governments, small businesses, non-profits, farmers, schools, <\/span>and more<\/span><\/a> in their efforts to advance wasted food prevention, rescue, recycling, and composting projects and infrastructure.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe bill addressed the critical need for investment into wasted food reduction and recovery programs and infrastructure in Maryland by establishing major grant funding programs funded by a nominal $2\/ton surcharge on waste disposal. <\/span>Numerous other states<\/span><\/a>, such as those featured in our <\/span>2022 webinar<\/span><\/a>, have similar successful funding programs in place with positive impacts on their local communities, economies, and the environment.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDuring the 2025 session, this bill was supported by many organizations, groups, and legislators. The opposition, composed solely of the solid waste and hauling industry, strongly opposed the disposal surcharge funding mechanism. The House passed a version of HB42 that removed the surcharge funding mechanism and replaced it with a 5 years of funding, at the discretion of the Governor each year. This version of HB42 crossed over into the Senate, where it did not receive a vote, preventing it from passing.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a><\/b>\r\n

Download<\/b>\u00a0a one-page summary of the bill here<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Use our <\/b>model legislation template <\/b><\/a>to draft a policy like this for your own state or locality<\/b><\/h5>\r\n

Why is funding for reduction and diversion of wasted food needed NOW in Maryland?<\/b><\/h3>\r\n