Earth Month UWS Explainer: How to ‘Compost’ Food Scraps and Why It Matters
Navigating the Compostable Packaging Landscape: Insights from BPI Executive Director Rhodes Yepsen
Which applications are best for compostable packaging? How can labeling help eliminate consumer confusion over proper disposal? What role will EPR play in facilitating composting? BPI Executive Director Rhodes Yepsen shares his thoughts.
Bioplastics create a composting conundrum
Biodegradable food packaging is a step in the right direction, experts say, but when composted carries risks of microplastic and chemical contamination.
https://www.ehn.org/are-bioplastics-compostable-2667646084.html
St. Pete Greenhouse paying dividends in providing food and teaching students at youth farm
https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/greenhouse-paying-dividends-in-providing-food.aspx
ANCA’s SOIL Fund boosts two small North Country farms
Compost Global Market Report 2024 – By Drivers, Size, Share, Trends And Analysis, Forecast To 2033
https://www.openpr.com/news/3453046/compost-global-market-report-2024-by-drivers-size-share
Republic Services Announces Compost Workshops, Commercial Food Waste Assessments
Super-sized diversion
Denali Water Solutions works with large-scale venues and events to divert food waste and packaging from landfills.
Nod to a Bountiful Ag Budget in Pennsylvania
In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal
Want to compost your food waste in Fort Collins? This company is opening a new facility
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/want-compost-food-waste-fort-110336956.html
Food waste compost program starts Tuesday in Attleboro
CIC and Dalhousie working on food waste measurement
O-Town Compost collects food scraps from UCF dining to turn into compost
Food Scrap Composting Offers Wellington Businesses An Easy Way To Take Climate Action
Price Farms Organics creates compost from Columbus Zoo and community scraps
Modular Insect Farms Successfully Turn Organic Waste Into Sustainable Protein
The world wastes more than a billion meals a day
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/04/the-world-wastes-more-than-a-billion-meals-a-day/
Why Asia must solve food waste to hit its environmental goals
Food waste is a worldwide problem but is particularly pressing in Asia, which is home to hundreds of millions of hungry people
Not only is wasted food not getting to the people who urgently need it, that which ends up in landfills produces methane which exacerbates climate change
Compostable Packaging Disintegration at Composting Facilities
Something’s fishy with composting at D.C. farmers markets
https://wamu.org/story/24/04/05/dc-composting-farmers-markets/
PCFWC & ReFED find ‘real food waste reductions at scale’ in a new study of West Coast US grocery retailers
Bellevue High Schools go green with composting initiative
“field-to-fork-to-field.”