4 Mobile Apps Helping Minimize Waste in the Food Industry
Recent research shows consumers in North America and Europe waste about 209 to 253 pounds of food per person every year. This costs the average family of four roughly $600 a year. Globally, one-third...
View ArticleCommon Food Waste A Key Ingredient In Hazardous Heavy Metal Clean-Up
Onions and garlic may be the backbone ingredients of any delicious meal, but researchers in India say these aromatics may also pack a punch as tools for cleaning up industrial waste. A study published...
View ArticleRe-Nuble Turns Community Compost Into Clean Electricity
Recent statistics suggest Americans waste up to 40 percent of the food that passes through our kitchens. Some of that is the fault of poor meal planning, but a majority of that food waste happens...
View Article5 Apps To Help You Keep You Live Green In 2013
Happy New Year! The turn of the year is a great time to set goals for yourself. When that clock strikes 12:00, the old year slips into oblivion forever. Any disappointments or limitations can be...
View ArticleNew Think Tank Takes Aim At Broken Food System
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that there’s something wrong with the global food system. More than one third of all food grown worldwide is wasted. The drive to produce more, faster, is...
View ArticleEcoScraps’ Waste-Cutting Potting Soil Now Available At Target
Food waste is a seriously problem in the United States. With millions, mostly children going hungry every day, it’s ludicrous that 33 million tons of food waste reach landfills each year in the United...
View ArticleFord Vehicles About To Lose 13.4 Pounds Of Waste
As you may imagine, the process of supplying passenger vehicles to a global market produces a lot of waste. Most vehicle manufacturers might see this as the cost of doing business, but Fort Motor Co....
View Article‘Carbon Foodprint’ Tool Helps Restaurants Shrink Waste
The term “carbon footprint” usually conjures up images of exhaust-belching vehicles or a house with lights blazing day and night. Despite this narrow perception, there is an element of carbon pollution...
View ArticleKroger Will Upcycle Food Waste Into Fuel
Poor planning and inefficient storage methods mean a lot of edible food hits the trash can. The United States spends about 1 billion dollars a year just to dispose of food that could have been eaten,...
View ArticleNYC Announces Citywide Mandatory Composting Program
In his State of the City address in February, Mr. Bloomberg called food waste ”New York City’s final recycling frontier.” The headline-loving Mayor, whose previous attempts to clean up the Big Apple...
View ArticleMass. Announces Plan To Eliminate Commercial Food Waste
Eyes bigger than your stomach? Not loving the entree you ordered? Typically, restaurant workers simply scrape that perfectly edible food into the trash can. In Massachusetts, government officials have...
View Article3 Ways We’re All Making Climate Change Worse
Editorial Note: EarthTechling is running special expanded coverage today of the new UN climate report and its implications. To read the latest from us and our editorial partners, go here. The...
View ArticleColorado Engineers Turn Rotting Garbage Into Valuable Glass
How much do you know about glass, other than that it’s a pain to clean up when it breaks? Glass is made from a combination of sand, flint, or other silica, thrown together with some fixed alkalies, and...
View ArticleBritish Supermarket to Power Itself Solely With Food Waste
It’s good to refrain from wasting energy, but it’s even better to procure energy from items that you otherwise would waste.That’s the thinking behind the latest announcement from Sainsbury’s, the...
View Article‘Carbon Foodprint’ Tool Helps Restaurants Shrink Waste
The term “carbon footprint” usually conjures up images of exhaust-belching vehicles or a house with lights blazing day and night. Despite this narrow perception, there is an element of carbon pollution...
View ArticleKroger Will Upcycle Food Waste Into Fuel
Poor planning and inefficient storage methods mean a lot of edible food hits the trash can. The United States spends about 1 billion dollars a year just to dispose of food that could have been eaten,...
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