Want to take the garbage out once or twice a month instead of every few days? A smart food recycler is your secret weapon for a greener kitchen. Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in ...

Somewhere between scraping wilted spinach into the trash for the fourth time in one week and staring at a science experiment growing in the back of my fridge, I decided something had to change. I had ...

Food waste: it is an insanely important sustainability issue that we can improve within our own homes. Research estimates that upwards of 50% of the total amount of food that is wasted comes from our ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

An engineer's observation of kitchen waste led to the development of Vaayu, a domestic biogas plant that converts organic scraps into cooking fuel. This innovation not only reduces landfill waste but ...

EXCLUSIVE: Millions of households may be contaminating food waste collections by throwing these everyday kitchen items into the wrong bin.

Modern societies generate a great deal of trash, and even in the developed world the waste-handling system struggles to deal with it. Only a disappointing fraction of plastic waste is in fact recycled ...