Scientists are finding ways to recover nutrients from food waste, turning discarded scraps into ingredients, supplements, and ...

This oven runs completely on waste oil and it's totally awesome! Watch as the waste oil powers the oven and creates amazing ...

UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing ...

I like to think of myself as a good caretaker of the planet. To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste items—plastic containers, glass bottles and jars, cans, paper and ...

Ames kept about 26,668 tons of material out of landfills in 2025, Resource Recovery Superintendent Mark Peebler said. That ...

Tracking food waste can save you hundreds — maybe even thousands — of dollars a year. Here are some expert tips for how to eat what you buy and buy only what you will eat. Three-quarters of a red ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering HB 3018, which would require thousands of Oregon businesses - from hospitals to restaurants to food producers - to compost their food waste. Nationwide, an estimated ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste leftover from the manufacturing of the U.S. nuclear ...

A student-led zero-waste initiative in Kau has kept more than 20,000 pounds of waste out of the West Hawaii landfill since the 2024 start of their grant-supported efforts in trash separation, ...

It’s hard to get rid of what we no longer want. Most Berkshire municipalities have numerous inactive landfills — essentially holes into which we dumped our trash — officially listed by the state’s ...

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...

Frugality is a mindset that many people overlook, chalking it up to a "cheap" lifestyle or struggling to comprehend the discomfort of giving up their misguided coping skills. However, frugality is ...