Americans chuck a lot of food. The average household tosses $3,000 worth in the trash every year, a cost that’s nearly doubled since the last time the EPA ran its numbers. The planet-warming impact of ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. When we started working on this ...

Over the last five years, Lesly Baesens and her team have been enthusiastically digging through Denver residents’ garbage cans. They call the practice “waste auditing.” And with each unopened bag of ...

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New York State and Long Island have long struggled with the challenges of waste reduction and recycling modernization while our region weighs alternatives for our waste management future. For years, ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is reminding businesses, organizations and consumers of the waste ...

This week, New York City is hosting over 900 events dedicated to creating bold solutions to the climate crisis. Across all five boroughs, business leaders, politicians, climate activists, scientists ...