Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

You probably expect this to be another feel-good story about sustainability and backyard bins. It's not. Let's be real, ...

Quick reminder: The law called SB 1383 aims to keep food waste out of landfills, where it decomposes and emits the planet-heating greenhouse gas methane. Landfills are California’s third largest ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

Lack of outdoor space shouldn’t stop you from composting. Here’s how to get started. Composting helps reduce methane emissions by turning food scraps and other waste into a nutrient-rich fertilizer ...

Twenty miles south of Boise, crews at the city compost farm are bracing for the busy season. “Grass season,” as compost program director Lisa Knapp calls it, means bag after bag of lawn clippings and ...

The median cost to expand composting programs is $478 per ton of CO 2 avoided. Large cities, which would be the largest methane emitters from organic waste, generally have methane capture technologies ...