For some, what happens to the contents of your household ‘food bin’ that many councils collect for recycling waste is perhaps even more mysterious than what happens to the plastic in our recycling ...

Whether you’re an enthusiastic home cook or just think of the kitchen as the room with the microwave, no kitchen set-up is complete without a bin. It may not be the most exciting purchase but it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the first public hearing on Pittsfield’s plans to overhaul its trash and recycling policy, Dominick Villane, an apartment building property manager, made a point about how food waste affects the ...

At Luther we take our commitments to waste reduction seriously. We do what we can to reduce and reuse before making our way to the third “r” (recycling). Centralized waste infrastructure is located ...

A Charleston city experiment that asked people to bring their residential food scraps to drop-off sites in parks for composting has now become an established program across much of the county. The ...

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 ...