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 ...

Each day at the Green Era Campus in Auburn Gresham, trucks drive into a cavernous industrial facility to unload withered ...

The shell of an egg. The peel of an orange. The leftovers that sit in the fridge too long. These all contribute to food waste, which Americans generate 92 billion pounds of each year, according to ...

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 ...

First popularized in Japan in the 1980s, bokashi composting is a unique, indoor composting method that has a number of advantages over other composting systems. Not only is bokashi composting small ...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a powerful technology for creating biogas and digestate from organic waste. While biogas is of ...

Welcome to Table Scraps, an intermittent series on the growing problem of food waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — A new curbside composting program held at the Muskegon Farmers Market is making it easier for residents to keep food waste out of landfills while supporting environmental ...

Over 30 recipients were chosen for the 2025 Community Composter Mini-Grant Program from states across the Northeastern ...

Since the composting program at LaPerche started, the school has diverted about 15 tons of food from the landfill. Students ...

The new composter, able to process up to 1,000 pounds of organic waste per day, comes to the school thanks to a 2024 grant ...

Minnesota has a long history in composting, beginning with the 1987 launch of its first mixed-waste municipal compost ...