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 ...

Most people picture a compost pile as something that lives behind a house, next to a shed and a patch of dirt. Apartment life ...

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...

Also known as “lazy composting,” trench composting needs no bin or turning.

Nobody wants to smell rotting food in the morning. This simple trick allows you to feed your compost pile weekly without stinking up the kitchen. Composting benefits the environment and your garden, ...

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 ...

Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over half of all ...

Rice and Moonshot Compost make sustainability an easy option on campus. Rice University has reached a major milestone in its campus sustainability efforts, composting more than 2 million pounds of ...

This week is Climate Week, the largest annual event of its kind, which brings together leaders across industries to address the climate crisis. This year’s theme is “It’s time” and in the case of NYC, ...