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 ...

VACAVILLE, CA - APRIL 20: A tractor drives past piles of compost at the Jepson Prairie Organics compost facility April 20, 2009 in Vacaville, California. Norcal Waste Systems is collecting food scraps ...

Visitors got an inside look at how food scraps are transformed into nutrient-rich compost during an Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) farm tour on July 11 at Rathlin Soils, 7450 ...

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 ...

Environmentalists urge people to think twice about how much food they make and how to deal with leftovers this Thanksgiving. New York City, reportedly the world's most wasteful city, last year ...

Columbus residents have composted about 400,000 pounds of food waste since the city started rolling out free public drop-off ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tired of walking on egg shells when you're composting? Try out this useful alternative — if you're a pet owner, you may just ...

“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 ...