Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions within the global food systems are responsible for nearly half of all emissions. Alarmingly, a significant portion of these emissions is linked to avoidable ...

This week, New York City’s war on rats starts a welcome new offensive with the mandatory organic food waste collection (also called curbside composting) for all New Yorkers’ homes. The rules to ...

Food makes up the single largest waste stream in Illinois — 20% of the 19 million tons of waste we send to the landfill each year — but just 50 communities had access to food scrap collection through ...

Starting next month, Encinitas residents will be able to deposit food waste into their yard waste bins. The resulting mix of banana peels, apple cores and leftover pizza slices, along with grass ...

Beginning January 3, 2026, and continuing through December 31, 2026, Alachua County residents can drop off food waste at the ...

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 ...

Slowly but surely, it now appears, the municipality is building a town-wide program for recycling food scraps. Five new collection bins have been deployed at Griggs Farm, ...

Did you know that nearly 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted every year? If we could recoup just half of that, we could end world hunger. Food waste also has a huge environmental impact. Globally, the ...

Setting up a new food waste collection service will cost almost £2m, a local authority has said. South Norfolk Council will send more than 130,000 food waste containers to homes, with the authority ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The city is adding more drop-off locations for food waste in hopes more residents will participate in the program. Greater participation could set the stage for residential curbside ...