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 ...

GEME's Terra 2 turns everyday kitchen scraps into usable compost. It's a reliable approach to reducing food waste, but you'll have to manage the odor. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

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 ...

Turn summer scraps into soil, not trash. Learn how to start a simple backyard compost pile, what to put in, and how to keep ...

Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That's more than five kilograms each household per week. Over half of all ...

Recology spokesman Robert Reed stood beside the tailgate of a pickup truck loaded with a mound of rich, dark compost during a ...

A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

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 ...

“Food waste from our rec centers becomes high-quality compost, adding valuable nutrients back into city soils,” one official said. Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and Bennett Compost celebrated the ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - The City of Grand Junction has secured a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for a Composting ...

The state’s disposal ban still isn’t being enforced 10 years later, but advocates are getting traction on new policy ideas ...