Each year, approximately 1.3 billion tons of food waste is created globally. In the United States alone, approximately 34 million tons of food is delivered to landfills, which accounts for more than ...

Metro Vancouver is ramping up its enforcement on food disposal on Jan. 1. Residents and businesses will be expected to separate food waste from regular garbage. The organics disposal ban will focus on ...

Smart waste disposal has always been a big issue in a small but densely populated country like Korea, where around 50 million people live. The country has recently implemented a new waste disposal ...

BOSTON (State House New Service) – A regulation from environmental regulators aims to reduce food waste in the state starting in November, moving toward the goal of reducing 30 percent of all waste ...

A recent study from the California Association of Food Banks found that many food banks don't have the staff and other resources to handle an increased donations and healthy food options. Passed in ...

Experts say there is no 'one size fits all' approach to disposing of food waste. Food waste is a big problem in Canada, where 58 per cent of all food produced in the country is thrown out annually. It ...

There’s a new food pyramid on the minds of supermarket operators these days: It’s about the size of a great Egyptian pyramid, and there are six of them. That’s about the amount of food, 72 billion ...

The term “garbage disposal” is really a bit of a misnomer. If you’ve ever had one, you probably know that you can’t run random garbage through it. Instead, they’re designed to grind up and dispose of ...

I’ve been trying to convince a friend to compost her food waste, now that she has a back yard. She claims that she plans to do so, but in the meantime, she’s sending all her food through the garbage ...

Q: I averted a near disaster on Christmas Eve. I was making 75 deviled eggs for 30 guests who were soon to arrive. I turned on my disposal to grind up the eggshells and ended up with a pool of smelly ...

Unscientific disposal of food waste by resorts and hotels on the periphery of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries has come under the scanner of the Forest Department. This has been identified as ...

A food-waste recycling company that became a public nuisance for stinking up a Grafton neighborhood has been fined up to $250 ...