Most organic household waste ends up in landfills where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

Multi-family housing units and commercial businesses without Retail Food Licenses in the city of Aspen will have to begin ...

Modern societies generate a great deal of trash, and even in the developed world the waste-handling system struggles to deal with it. Only a disappointing fraction of plastic waste is in fact recycled ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

Kerstin Kansteiner, owner of Berlin Bistro in Long Beach, can’t believe it took so long for the city to launch its own food scraps collection program. But she’s glad the day has finally arrived.

Organic Waste Systems (OWS) is a world leading company in the construction and operation of anaerobic digestion plants, in the biodegradability and compostability testing of different types of ...

Color-coded Sanitary Service Company toters are shown curbside on Yew Street Road near Alvarado Drive in Bellingham. Yellow-lidded containers are for food waste, yard debris and other organic matter; ...

The question of whether eggshells belong in organic waste might seem simple, but it often leaves people unsure. In most cases ...