Tackling London’s air pollution crisis with food waste technology

4 Ways your Restaurant Can Reduce Waste (and Save Money)

Your restaurant may literally be throwing away money. Many food service owners do not realize the impact that wasting food has on their bottom line. Over one third of the world’s food supply is wasted annually, amounting to a global…

How to Solve the Food Waste Problem at its Root

Food waste is a problem across the globe. From North America to Europe and as far east as Asia, many countries are having difficulty solving this complex problem because waste occurs all along the supply chain. Because a number of states in the…

The Smarter Kitchen

Choosing the right piece of equipment is crucial to the success of any restaurant, including waste disposal equipment, but facility managers must be wary, as equipment is no longer created equal. “Smart” connected products are going to transform the industrial equipment marketplace, will…

4 Ways Your Business Can Reduce Waste (and Save Money)

Your business may literally be throwing away money. Many business owners do not realize the impact that wasting food has on their bottom line. Over one third of the world’s food supply is wasted annually, amounting to a global profit…

How to Solve the Food Waste Problem at its Root

Food waste is a problem across the globe. From North America to Europe and as far east as Asia, many countries are having difficulty solving this complex problem because waste occurs all along the supply chain. Because a number of states in the…

Waste management is changing, and this is why businesses should care

Every year in the U.S. 34 million tons of food is wasted and carted to landfills. Beyond contributing to the dangerous methane released into the atmosphere every year, for densely populated areas the process is…

Maximizing the Value of Food Waste

Tapping into the value of food waste reporting provides vital information to more directly answer 6 key questions: Who, What, Why, When, Where and How Much. Without these basic questions answered there is no way to fully understand the problem in order to make informed…

New York City Announces Business Organics Rules

Beginning July 19, 2016, certain New York City businesses will be required by law to separate their organic waste. If your business meets the minimum requirements outlined below, you must comply with the business organics rules.

Recology Intentionally Told Schools To Trash Millions Of Recyclable Trays And Then Blames The Kids

Recology instructed San Francisco school officials to not recycle the recyclable plastic trays the district uses daily to serve students food. So reports the…

Residents argue that it’s neighborhood composting facility is like living next to a garbage dump

In the Richmond section of Vancouver, city officials are demanding more stringent air-quality regulations to control the stink from the region’s composting plant…

Brooklyn residents hope to shut down waste transfer station, claim odors and fumes are sickening

Garbage is an irrefutable fact of life in New York City. It’s the first thing newcomers notice and the last thing they see when they leave the city: trash is…

Is Recycling Worth Abandoning

According to Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and Founding Chari of the U.S. Green Building Council we need to be less reactionary to the issue and rethink the process.

Rethinking Recycling: A Call to Action

Cities and counties come to grips with the high cost of recycling programs.

Local governments have mailed out brochures. They’ve held live web chats. They’ve designed helpful magnets.

NYC Compost Problems

As reported first by CBS New York, New Yorkers complain that being asked to compost their garbage is creating a stinky mess.

NYC residents have green bins for regular garbage, blue ones for recycling and now brown ones for composting and residents of Greenpoint…

New York City Moves One Step Closer

Administration proposal expands organics diversion program to the commercial sector.

On July 1st, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration unveiled their proposal to expand organic diversion to the commercial sector. The program would be…

It’s All About The Data

In the waste industry, a key criticism is the lack of data or, where data does exist, a lack of accurate information. For example, almost all operations have no idea how much waste they have, what kind of waste it is, how to prevent the waste, and where the waste goes.

The Fremont Food Waste-to-Energy Plant Shut Down

The Fremont food waste-to-energy plant, located in Fremont, Michigan, touted as the first of its kind in the nation has closed a little more than two years after it opened because it hadn’t paid its electric bill.

A New Waste Hierarchy

In 1989 the EPA issued an Agenda for Action that first included the idea of an Integrated Waste Management Hierarchy, which took on many variations before reaching the common one today.

The EPA’s basic idea was to attempt to suggest–but not mandate–that, even…

NYC’s Commercial Waste Management System Is Garbage

New York City’s commercial waste-management system is more broken than anyone realized, according to a report released by Transform Don’t Trash NYC.