For some, what happens to the contents of your household ‘food bin’ that many councils collect for recycling waste is perhaps even more mysterious than what happens to the plastic in our recycling ...

William Clarke has received funding from the Australian Research Council on projects related to the degradation of organic wastes in landfills and in anaerobic digesters. He has also performed ...

Color-coded Sanitary Service Co. totes are shown curbside on Yew Street Road near Alvarado Drive in Bellingham in 2024. Yellow-lidded containers are for food waste, yard debris and other organic ...

When organic waste is dumped into the trash and sent to a landfill it breaks down into methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times as potent as CO2 — pretty harmful stuff considering the culprit might be some ...

KCRA 3’S LYSEE MITRI EXPLAINS. TAKING OUT THE TRASH REQUIRES MORE SORTING. THESE DAYS, ALL CUSTOMERS AND RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES HAVE TO BE PUTTING OUR FOOD WASTE INTO THE ORGANICS CONTAINER INSTEAD ...

My daily battle against climate change starts in the kitchen, as I separate all that organic waste so that it doesn’t later produce methane in some landfill. Those food scraps first go into a compost ...

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 ...

San Diego has completed its rollout of more than 200,000 organic waste recycling green bins to city-serviced homes to allow residents to collect food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings for ...