The United States has a festering food waste problem going largely unnoticed. In 2021, according to the nonprofit ReFED, 91 million tons of food – half still edible – were thrown away. Only 2% was ...

Composting is an easy and effective way to recycle organic waste and nourish your garden. While many people know that fruits ...

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 ...

Rifrullo Café, a cozy farm-to-table restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, hums with customers on a steamy July mid-morning. Patrons sip coffee on the shady sidewalk patio. Inside, people hunch over ...

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 ...

TikTok A woman's simple freezer trick turned kitchen scraps into something far more useful than landfill waste. In a TikTok ...

In the Fargo-Moorhead area, businesses, residents and governments are finding ways to keep food waste out of landfills ...

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 ...

This week, New York City’s war on rats starts a welcome new offensive with the mandatory organic food waste collection (also called curbside composting) for all New Yorkers’ homes. The rules to ...

Starting July 1, the Town of Leesburg will start earning a share of the county-imposed tax on plastic bags. The anticipated ...

The city of East Lansing is launching a new food waste composting program that gives residents a way to keep organic waste ...