In residential buildings, people throw out a lot of garbage, and a huge portion of it is food. An estimated 30% of the garbage of a typical household is food scraps and food that’s gone to waste. When ...

Science is uncovering more novel ways to transform those smelly, spent banana peels decaying in your garbage into something people might actually want to eat. Around a third of the world’s overall ...

Americans make 294 million tons of trash every year. About half of that goes straight to landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the most common material sent to landfills is food ...

If you’re looking for a garbage disposal you can rely on, check out the InSinkErator Evolution Excel. With a 1 HP motor, this powerful unit grinds up the competition (pun intended) and your unwanted ...

If your mother ever told you to eat your Brussels sprouts because there are starving children in Ethiopia/Rwanda/the Congo, you likely feel pangs of guilt when tossing out food. But throwing out ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - It's a stunning discovery in these tough economic times: Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of food that was supposed to be served in school cafeterias could go to waste ...