Food recycling and fertilizer company California Safe Soil LLC reached an agreement with Save Mart Supermarkets to take and use its organic waste.
West Sacramento-based Safe Soil uses enzymes to quickly turn food waste into a soil amendment.
Grocery stores usually have to pay to have waste hauled away and Safe Soil collects the waste for free.
The two companies today announced an agreement in principle, which they will be negotiating in the coming months.
Modesto-based Save Mart has 222 stores…