The global wasted food crisis is staggering, with roughly one third of all food that’s produced being thrown away. The U.S.

As one of the most widely used bioplastics in the world, polylactic acid (PLA) degrades very little outside of industrial ...

Massachusetts company looks for ways to promote education and outreach and for methods to advance the composting process.

Hot composting requires a fairly precise recipe of ingredients and a considerable amount of attention and management to ...

New York has completed its roll-out of weekly compost collection services across the five boroughs. The program, which began ...

Just Good Compost, founded by psychiatrist William Affleck, has discovered its unique "pay-to-peel" model is catching on in ...

Neighbors in a Maricopa County community say the smell from a nearby composting farm is hurting their health. The man behind ...

In the first few years after Monique Figueiredo founded Compostable LA in 2019, it grew rapidly. The small business picked up ...

Much of the food scraps and other organic waste that’s collected will go not to compost piles but to producing “bio-gas” ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, an unprecedented agreement was reached between the fresh produce industry and composting organizations to ...

A study out in Science this month finds that states' attempts to cut the amount of food waste going into landfills are rarely ...

Billed as the nation’s largest compost collection program, the effort is part of Mayor Eric Adams’ push to modernize trash ...