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(KCRA) – Soon, you’ll have to think twice before throwing out your leftovers. A law is requiring everyone to properly dispose of organic waste. That includes businesses.
Thomas Wilkins is an employee at Great Escape Games in Sacramento. The center for gamers has something for everyone, literally allowing for patrons to, as Wilkins said, “escape whatever it is in your life for a little while.”Advertisement
This hub where make believe rules the realm, where dragons fly free, and wizards, warlocks, elves, dwarves and orcs walk the land, is also a place where fantasy has met reality.
Great Escape Games recently made a strategic move to no longer allow food to be brought in. The decision was made after state law started requiring businesses to separate organic materials from trash. Staff at the gaming center grew tired of doing that.
In the past, gamers would sit and one of the businesses’ rooms would be filled with tables for eating.
“Picking through trash is not fun,” Wilkins said. “It’s not my favorite thing to do at all.”
Senate Bill 1383 was signed by then Gov. Jerry Brown in 2016. It created a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. According to CalRecyle, organic waste in landfills emits 20% of the state’s methane, a climate pollutant several times more potent than carbon dioxide. Food scraps, yard trimmings, paper and cardboard — all considered organics — comprise half of what is being dumped into landfills.
