Earth Month UWS Explainer: How to ‘Compost’ Food Scraps and Why It Matters

https://www.westsiderag.com/2024/04/11/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.

https://www.packworld.com/sustainable-packaging/bio-based/article/22892884/navigating-compostable-packaging-with-bpis-rhodes-yepson

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

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2024/03/ancas-soil-fund-boosts-tangleroot-farm-and-tuckers-black-angus-ranch.html

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

https://www.redmondspokesman.com/sponsored/republic-services-announces-compost-workshops-commercial-food-waste-assessments/article_59b3f79e-41c6-5ff4-9dbd-00183a1161ab.html

Super-sized diversion

Denali Water Solutions works with large-scale venues and events to divert food waste and packaging from landfills.

https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/article/denali-water-solutions-works-with-event-venues-to-divert-food-waste/

Nod to a Bountiful Ag Budget in Pennsylvania

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/nod-to-a-bountiful-ag-budget-in-pennsylvania-opinion/article_d5b9ebae-0e09-5e77-b508-b41aee91041a.html

In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/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 

https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/food-waste-compost-program-starts-tuesday-in-attleboro/article_ffe21d9f-726d-5598-a3bb-38c52cc93ec8.html

CIC and Dalhousie working on food waste measurement

https://wasterecyclingmag.ca/food-waste-reduction/cic-and-dalhousie-working-on-food-waste-measurement/1003290434/

O-Town Compost collects food scraps from UCF dining to turn into compost

https://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/news/o-town-compost-collects-food-scraps-from-ucf-dining-to-turn-into-compost/article_528d1454-ecad-11ee-b653-ff477e43800e.html

Food Scrap Composting Offers Wellington Businesses An Easy Way To Take Climate Action

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2404/S00020/food-scrap-composting-offers-wellington-businesses-an-easy-way-to-take-climate-action.htm

Price Farms Organics creates compost from Columbus Zoo and community scraps

https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/price-farms-organics-creates-compost-from-columbus-zoo-and-community-scraps/819224.html

Modular Insect Farms Successfully Turn Organic Waste Into Sustainable Protein

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/modular-insect-farms-successfully-turn-organic-waste-into-sustainable-protein-1033234488

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

https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3258613/why-asia-must-solve-food-waste-hit-its-environmental-goals

Compostable Packaging Disintegration at Composting Facilities

https://www.closedlooppartners.com/research/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

https://agfundernews.com/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

https://omaha.com/news/community/sarpy/bellevue-high-schools-go-green-with-composting-initiative/article_33ac217e-7d24-53a9-83af-3fafea286d86.html

“field-to-fork-to-field.”

A closed loop makes for open doors at Durham College

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv/article-a-closed-loop-makes-for-open-doors-at-durham-college/