Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reducing food waste can help reduce emissions from the food's creation and its decomposition in disposal streams. (Getty Images) ...

Brooke Salvaggio, co-owner of Urbavore Urban Farms, waters a cover crop in late August. The farm's gardens get a heavy dose of compost collected at their operation. Yet the farm has been dealing with ...

Community composting is growing across the country but problems arise as cities lag behind in regulations and zoning laws. Food waste takes up a lot of landfill space. Turning that garbage into ...

MONTPELIER The Natural Resources Board has told Karl Hammer to halt operations at Vermont Compost Co., located on Main Street a few miles outside of the state's capital city. Hammer's company, along ...

A newly-constructed Department of Sanitation facility in Gowanus serves two purposes: expanding snow and composting ...

Where there’s a will, there’s not always a way. Ben Stanger has composted his whole life, starting with a backyard bin when he was a child. But when he wanted to expand his composting efforts and ...

A $15 million federal grant to establish or expand composting operations in five Southeast Alaska communities, including Juneau, is being awarded to the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian ...

The $24 million investment strengthens winter preparedness, expands year-round composting and advances major sewer ...

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. — The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency will negotiate a contract for services needed to support a county application for a $2 million state grant to have all organic waste ...

Food waste takes up space in landfills and produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Composting that waste can reduce climate impacts and save municipalities ...