Generating less trash is a worthy goal. But we all have to eat, and more food ends up in landfills than any other type of trash material, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It makes up ...

Olivia, Wildflower and others prize composting but wonder if there are enough incentives and direction from the city ...

Food scraps and yard waste: That’s all that A1 Organics, the largest composting facility in Colorado, wants you to throw in your compost bin as of April 1 (no joke). That’s a big change from the long ...

Learn about the benefits of compostable bags vs plastic bags and discover the best types of compostable bags to use for trash ...

The new Consortium — which includes Closed Loop Partners, PepsiCo, the NextGen Consortium, the US Plastics Pact and other value chain players — aims to pilot industry-wide solutions and map tech and ...

The wait is finally over for city of Los Angeles residents wanting to comply with California's food waste mandate. The Bureau of Sanitation announced Jan. 16 that residents citywide should dispose of ...

Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized composting sites in California and Oregon that turn discarded banana peels, ...

Which compost starter is best? Globally, food waste contributes 8%-10% of all greenhouse gas emissions. One way to mitigate food waste in your home is to start a home compost bin, which not only keeps ...

Sometimes, it takes creativity to make mass composting a practice that actually works. According to Restaurant Hospitality, Taco Time Northwest has it figured out. In 2010, the city of Seattle passed ...

“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 ...