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 ...

There's little disagreement that composting food waste is the gold standard when it comes to environmental sustainability. In New York, last year's pilot program to bring curbside food waste recycling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Food waste is a fact of life. Also a fact is that it’s smelly, wet and heavy. It makes a mess out of the rest of the trash and is generally nasty. Getting food waste out of the trash may also provide ...

Plumbers know the day after Thanksgiving as something else altogether: "Brown Friday," so-named for the increase in service calls. Plumbing giant Roto-Rooter, which has about 620 locations across the ...

Havre de Grace residents now have a site in the city where they can dispose of their kitchen waste and have it be taken away to be turned into compost. Mayor William T. Martin, speaking Friday during ...

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