A long-delayed project to convert organic waste into natural gas for heating fuel at the city’s Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is on track to launch as early as next month, according to ...

A spotless white roof bulges above a small industrial building with four compartments and four fuchsia-colored doors at the Monterey Regional Waste Management District”s sprawling, 400-acre complex ...

CHICAGO -- A unique climate change fighting machine is being used to divert thousands of pounds of food waste from landfills, as well as feed people and heat city homes in a clean and sustainable way.

Did you know hogs used to feed on garbage at the dump near Edna? And that at one point, more than 100 of them were stolen? The Telegram-Tribune reported March 8, 1955: “The largest hog-stealing ...

Most of the nation's garbage still ends up in landfills, and as much as half of what Americans toss into their trash bins is food waste and other organic material. But increasingly there's recognition ...

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it's ...

ASHEVILLE - Of the trash tossed into the city's garbage cans annually, 12 million pounds are organic materials including everything from vegetable peelings to used pizza boxes. That's according to a ...