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On The Road To Food Recovery And Recycling
Top: Finished yard trimmings compost being loaded into a trailer at Mesa County Compost Facility. The USDA grant is helping to fund a program focused on compost marketing, education, and distribution...
View ArticleUN’s 2024 Food Waste Index Attributes 60% Of Food Waste To Households
Top: The amount of food that households waste is the equivalent of 1.3 meals every day for everyone in the world impacted by hunger. Image courtesy UN Environment Programme The United Nations...
View ArticleInequities In Urban Composting
Top: Urban community garden overlooking the New York City skyline. Photo by Nora Goldstein A paper published in November 2023 in Environmental Health Perspectives maintains that compost produced from...
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The Food System’s Natural Circularity
Top: Collage of proposed natural circularity image (on left) and existing U.S. EPA food recovery and recycling graphics (on right). Design by Doug Pinkerton. Jessica Toth As a kid, I was fascinated by...
View ArticleResidential Food Scraps Initiatives In Buffalo
Top: The City of Buffalo launched a year-long curbside food scraps collection pilot in Fall 2023 with close to 1,900 households participating. The City of Buffalo, New York, isn’t winging it when it...
View ArticleEPA Classifies PFOA And PFOS As Hazardous Substances
Top: Foam used in fighting fires is a common source of PFAS. Photo by Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped and manipulated by BioCycle) On April 19, the U.S. Environmental Protection...
View ArticleCompostable Packaging Field Disintegration Testing Data Released
Top: Image courtesy Closed Loop Partners How well does certified, food-contact compostable packaging actually break down in real-world composting facilities? A new report, Breaking It Down: The...
View ArticleSave Big Reuse’s NYC Composting Site
Top: Big Reuse’s Queens food scraps and yard trimmings composting site under the Queensboro Bridge. Photo courtesy Big Reuse On April 19, Big Reuse held a press conference with members of the New York...
View ArticleU.S. Composting Industry Survey
Top: Photo by Doug Pinkerton The Environmental Research & Education Foundation collaborated with the US Composting Council to conduct a survey of the compost manufacturing industry in the U.S....
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Connections: Dispelling Concerns About Phosphorus In Compost
Top: The compost-amended Phase 3 Bioswale under the Aurora Bridge in Seattle can treat 1.9 million gallons of storm water annually. Photo by Site Story Sally Brown Compost and urban soils are a match...
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