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 ...

Royal Oak residents now have more options for composting their food scraps after a program that started with bins at the ...

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 ...

Just 5% of America’s food waste is composted. Which states are getting it done? A person scraping vegetable scraps from a cutting board into a compost bin outdoors. The scraps include leafy greens, ...

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 ...

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

At The Foodbank Inc. in downtown Dayton, a dark pile of processed waste and wood chips sits beneath a conveyor belt. This is ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The Town of Cary recently completed a one-year food waste pilot program, which involved residents dropping off food waste at the location pictured left. Credit: Town of Cary Cary’s Good Hope Farm ...

Chris Shelar, the diversion manager at KC Can Compost, demonstrates how their collection truck picks up the larger collection bins from the nonprofit's commercial customers who want to compost their ...