NEWPORT, Minn. (WCCO) – A Minnesota recycling company plans to break ground this fall on a project that turns food waste into fuel. Hundreds of thousands of tons of trash moves through the ...

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 ...

The company takes in, de-packages, and sorts grocers’ and food processors’ pre-consumer waste. They turn some of it into animal feed and fertilizers and send most of the rest to anaerobic digestion to ...

It’s no secret that New York City, like many densely populated urban areas throughout history, has a trash and rodent problem. Mountains of bloated trash bags —many containing food waste that attract ...

It sounds incredible but estimates show that almost one billion meals go waste daily. A UNEP report reveals that 20% of this food is simply thrown away. And, approximately one-third of the food ...

Stale bread. A surplus of scrambled eggs. Unused broccoli stems. Much of the detritus regularly carted from Yale’s dining hall kitchens doesn’t end up in the landfill — instead, it is taken to a ...