Composting is the most Earth-friendly way to dispose of food waste and it's easy to get started. Composting can have many benefits, such as reducing food waste, promoting healthy plant growth, ...

Composting is science and making truly usable plant and garden fuel requires a careful balance of dry brown material and wet, nutrient-rich green. The latter usually consists of kitchen waste but ...

HELP THEM DECORATE THE TRUCK. IN ALBUQUERQUE, SOUTH VALLEY, ONE LOCAL COMPANY IS KEEPING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF FOOD OUT OF THE LANDFILL EVERY WEEK, TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING YOUR YARD CAN ...

The United Nations reports that food waste contributes to 8% to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. If it were its own country, it would be the third-largest contributor of greenhouse gas ...

In Albuquerque’s South Valley, workers are transforming spoiled food into hundreds of pounds of life-giving compost. Soilutions — New Mexico’s largest compost, soil and mulch manufacturer — has ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — A Lincoln man has opened a commercial worm farm that takes discarded food waste and turns it into a compost product with the creature's help. The ...

At a once-vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago, a semitruck backed into an unassuming warehouse and unloaded a colorful batch of food scraps and spoiled products. The discards soon ended up ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Residents in North Charleston now have a new way to turn food scraps into compost, as a new residential drop-off site opens at Northwoods Park, expanding a regionwide ...