In the course of a week, my kitchen produces a shocking quantity of what we might think of as edible trash: apple peels, garlic nubs, a bit of gristle from a steak, Dorito dust, tea bags, the ...

Vitamix may be best known for its blenders, but the company continues to innovate when it comes to food recycling. This spring, Vitamix debuted its third-generation FoodCycler machine, the FoodCycler ...

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City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation’s 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New ...

The largest category of waste going into landfills is food waste, said Rhonda Sherman, a world-renowned composting and vermicomposting expert who’s an extension specialist at NC State. Food waste ...

Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...

This article was produced by Wisconsin Watch. Until recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had a successful program to compost discarded food. Starting in 2009, the university collected food ...