On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results ...

New York City’s curbside composting program has reached a new milestone, with more than 5.4 million pounds of compostable ...

Let’s be real, composting doesn’t usually scream “cutting-edge.” But Arlington County is flipping the script and turning your ...

Kitchens are trimming waste thanks to biodigesters, buffet cancellations, AI-enabled trash cans, and other creative solutions ...

The changes will include new bins for food waste, and potential alterations to recycling and general waste collections. The council has also said it “needs” to review “how often” it ...

To that end, I am faithful about placing my recyclable waste ... food debris to be processed. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, as much as 25 percent of all material in recycling ...

A shortage of waste bins poses a problem to Bristol City Council’s plan to drive up recycling rates. For months now, ordering a new food waste bin in Bristol has proved “almost impossible”.

When recycling bins are contaminated with non-recyclable materials, it often leads to the entire load being rejected and sent to a landfill, which increases waste. The goal on the program’s ...

This includes introducing a minimum of five recycling bins or containers for an average home to dispose of food waste, plastics, paper and cardboard, green waste, and plastic films. This means ...

A massive overhaul of recycling and bin collections ... Under the new scheme, councils will be required to introduce weekly food waste collections for most homes. The Department for Environment ...

and encourages them to separate and recycle waste into glass, metal, plastic, paper and food waste - with food waste bins mandatory. The idea of the scheme is to simplify recycling, and to ensure ...

Under the plans councils will have to introduce weekly food waste collections ... “Simpler Recycling will also end the ‘postcode lottery’ of bin collections in England whereby councils ...