When people think about environmental issues and reducing waste, recycling cardboard shipping boxes or plastics often comes ...

Operators of heaping trash piles will one day have to put a lid on their methane emissions, as Colorado begins the process of adopting stronger landfill rules. Earlier in December, the state health ...

Pressures such as population growth, urbanization, and land degradation are straining the global agrifood system, the network connecting all steps of the food supply chain from growing crops in the ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

Organic waste (including food waste) in our landfills is the third-largest source of methane gas that ends up in our ...

Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin residents sent more than 900,000 tons of food waste to landfills in 2024, representing about one-fifth of all landfilled ...

NBA arenas are cutting waste with recycling, composting, and donations—keeping tons out of landfills while helping ...

Henry Gabriel, Recycling Program Branch Chief for the City & County of Honolulu, joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss what goes in the blue bins, where our e-waste goes, where to ...