Nearly a quarter of our country’s freshwater is squandered growing food that spoils. Here are ways to protect the environment ...

Eau Claire’s Putnam Heights Elementary School is going to start composting food waste. 4th-grade students took the time to ...

Thanksgiving leftovers are tasty, but much of it ends up in trash cans. According to one estimate, Americans tossed out 316 ...

The Sampson County landfill—where waste from Durham and 43 other NC counties is deposited—ranks second in the nation for ...

The municipality's new organics facility can create high-quality compost for the first time. Haley Ryan has the story.

Olmsted County's food waste compost pilot program has been met with success and will now run through December 2025.

The impact of composting extends far beyond your backyard. In the United States alone, we generate an astounding 152 billion kilograms of food waste annually. According to a study published by the ...

A citywide pilot program to collect food scraps from District residents has run into a completely unexpected problem: bucket ...

Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...

By Liz Antanavica, Bedford DPW Trash and Recycling Administrator. Trim the Waste, Not Just the Tree: A Holiday Food Waste ...

At age 13, when most young people are figuring out how to navigate middle school, Shrusti Amula started the Rise N Shine ...

The food scraps Halifax residents throw in their green bins are now headed to a new facility in Goodwood where the waste is turned into compost, and smells are kept inside the building.