Over the first six months of the food and trash recycling at Denver International Airport, more than two-thirds of the waste generated at 19 participating concessionaires was diverted from landfills.

People living and working in the city of San Diego are throwing less waste in the landfill and sending more organics to be recycled into compost, new city data shows. The city rolled out its upgraded ...

Creative ways communities are reducing food waste While lots of powerful changes to reduce food waste can start at home, sometimes the scale of the problem benefits from a community-wide approach.

Print media – leaflets, posters, caddy stickers; Webinars and workshops; The benefits of food waste recycling aren’t just experienced by the anaerobic digestion operators – they extend to everyone.

The food industry will always produce waste, he added. But an outlet like this, he said, is “game-changing.” This could be especially true for cities trying to ramp up their composting efforts.

Marketers of food recycling machines tout the ability to largely avoid the “yuck factor.” Before allowing kitchen discards to get too slimy and gross, they are tossed into a specially designed ...

Food waste from BYU travels to recycling facilities in Provo. Machines first grind up plant clippings and food waste. Then, that mixture moves to the sifting machine that pulls out unwanted items ...