Turn summer scraps into soil, not trash. Learn how to start a simple backyard compost pile, what to put in, and how to keep ...

Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer. It costs U.S. consumers $728 every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and emits the annual equivalent planet-warming ...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

The new CEO of Priority Waste is outlining a plan for service recovery following reports in June by 7 News Detroit about problems with trash pickup.

From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of ...

The Environment Agency received reports on Wednesday about the dump on land at Midland Road.

Steam rises from the top of towering piles of compost at a landfill in western Placer County, California. The jaws of an excavator rake up and churn the heaps, unleashing a stench of decomposing food.

Picture all of the trash you’ve thrown away this week. How much do you think you could reduce that amount if you really tried? By half? Lauren Singer thinks you can take it all the way to zero, and ...