The United States has a festering food waste problem going largely unnoticed. In 2021, according to the nonprofit ReFED, 91 million tons of food – half still edible – were thrown away. Only 2% was ...

While single-use bags labeled as compostable are an alternative for plastic bags, they are not to be disposed of in the green bins used to collect compostable waste, including food scraps and yard ...

In 2017, Grimm’s Fuel’s outlook was just that - Grimm. With over a thousand odor complaints a year, the facility was faced with a choice; Either shutdown ...

While visiting my daughter in Brooklyn over the holidays I noticed that they have curbside recycling for kitchen scraps. They ...

It’s that time of the week when your food waste pail is full, and you’re ready to walk your scraps out to the green-waste bin. (You are following your community’s rules about composting food scraps, ...

Question: I was glad to read about the city’s upcoming pilot project that will collect food waste in the green carts for composting (808ne.ws/45xLl6R), but the flaw I see — which I predict will ...