With limited federal movement to advance composting, states are forging ahead with policies of their own. They are funding ...

Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...

The United Nations reports that food waste contributes to 8% to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. If it were its own country, it would be the third-largest contributor of greenhouse gas ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

CONCORD, N.H. — For Albert Diemand, it all began with a composting toilet. Not everyone would have regarded the invention with wonder and fascination, but Diemand did. And it made him wonder, if there ...

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QUINCY − Free food waste pickup for all residents could be on the horizon as a task force created to study composting in the city recommends the practice to reduce the cost of trash pickup and limit ...

Each year, Americans throw out 400 pounds of food per person. Here are three composters who are thinking about the soil as well as better food waste systems. WeRadiate is a Brooklyn, New York-based ...

BERWYN, Ill. (CBS) – While it may look like garbage, composting is the process of recycling organic materials to fight food waste. If everyone in the U.S. composted, it would be like removing almost 8 ...

For most of the state, banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's ...

For all the smiles and goodwill they attracted on a recent morning, the workers in the big green truck might have been hawking Popsicles and Choco Tacos. But on this hot Saturday near downtown, the ...