At the St. Helena restaurant Press, gone are the days when kitchen staff scraped leftovers into trash bags destined for the landfill. Instead, the restaurant has installed a state-of-the-art ...

In residential buildings, people throw out a lot of garbage, and a huge portion of it is food. An estimated 30% of the garbage of a typical household is food scraps and food that’s gone to waste. When ...

Leaves on the ground during a New England autumn, orange rinds from abundant trees in Florida and in homes all over the country, food scraps pile up in garbage cans or compost bins. All of that waste ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI helps predict phosphorus recovery from manure, turning farm waste into a sustainable farming resource. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

Inside Look is a Modesto Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Divert Inc. has started up a Turlock plant that turns ...

Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and boost sustainability by making use of a common waste material. In excess, ...

Growing global demand for sustainable agriculture is driving scientists to find smarter ways to handle livestock waste. A new study by Xiaofei Ge and colleagues at China Agricultural University brings ...