Amazon battles investor group over food waste
An investment group that owns stock in Amazon.com wants the… You must be a paid subscriber and logged in to view this content. To view this post, please go to the top menu and log…
Coffee company busted over compostability claims
Costco and the parent of San Francisco Bay Gourmet Coffee… You must be a paid subscriber and logged in to view this content. To view this post, please go to the top menu and log…
Compost, recyclables trashed at Berkeley
The Daily Californian University of California, Berkeley custodians and groundskeepers often empty the contents of compost, recycling and landfill bins all into a single landfill-designated dumpster. Following campus protocol, compost and recyclables are mixed with…
BC district to open food waste composting facility in 2019
Revelstoke Mountaineer The Columbia Shuswap Regional District of British Columbia plans to build a compost facility at the Revelstoke Landfill. When it’s complete next year, it will begin accepting commercial food waste. The facility has…
Maryland’s Hood College gets composting
Frederick News-Post With the help of two students, Aramark dining services now has a contract to compost the food scraps left over from meal preparation at Hood College. Key City Compost, a Frederick, Md.-owned business,…
Curbside organics program proposed for Athens, Ohio
The Athens News A proposed city pilot program in Athens, Ohio, home of Ohio University, would provide some city residents the opportunity to have a bucket full of their compostable waste collected along with their…
Organic waste facility moves forward in New York
The Times Union Albany and Saratoga (N.Y.) counties are moving ahead on a $45 million shared organic waste facility that county officials say will reduce the need to dump or incinerate tons of rotted food…
Kitchen waste piling up in Edmonton landfill
Canadian Public Broadcasting Vegetable peels, egg shells and coffee grounds once made into useful compost at the Edmonton waste management center are instead piling up in a landfill. The city closed the composting facility in…
No BS: Cow manure is an energy source
Bloomberg The average Holstein cow produces more than 100 pounds of manure a day. It’s a lot of poop. It’s also a lot of potential power. On some farms, that energy is already being collected: The…
Commentary: Do we need trendy terms to encourage recycling?
By Joe Jarvis This commentary was reprinted from The Daily Bell. I don’t know why the media has to come up with stupid terms for everything. Reading about sustainable living, every time I see the…