In this Waste360 Q&A, Chris Seney, director of Organics Operations, Republic Services, reveals other expansion plan details.

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Until recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had a successful program to compost discarded food. Starting in 2009 ...

FOOD THAT IS NO LONGER GOOD TO EAT. CLOTHING THAT NO LONGER FIT. MATERIALS TO COMPLEX FOR CONVENTIONAL RECYCLING. TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY CAN TURN IT ALL INTO SOMETHING USEFUL. FOR PROOF, TRAVEL TO IPSWICH ...

The federal definition of compost has been static for decades. In a welcome development, the US Department of Agriculture is reviewing this definition in order to extend it beyond plant and animal ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — In honor of September being “Hunger Action Month,” the Dayton Foodbank hosted a special event on Sept. 21 to show people how to re-purpose their food waste. Composting is easier ...

Aside from staking up space, when food scraps are end up in landfill and decompose without access to oxygen they release methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

A research team led by Prof. Li Dejun from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant strides in using synthetic microbial communities (SynCom) to ...

Using a compost starter can speed up the process. It takes time to make compost. Organic matter requires about two to three months to break down in hot compost piles, and up to a year or more in cold ...

Composting is a great way to recycle while adding more activity to your day. The good news is you don’t need a yard to do it. Composting bins are available, and as long as you know what you can and ...

Starting in 2009, the university collected food scraps at campus cafeterias to send to the West Madison Agricultural Research Station for composting. In 2018, the university began bringing scraps to ...