Adding a buzz of electricity to fermenting food waste can accelerate the breakdown of organic matter and generate greater quantities of useful byproducts that are highly-prized by industry. This ...

The half-eaten burgers and fries and other food waste tossed by spectators at this week’s 3M Open in Blaine are not going to a landfill. Instead, they will go to Turtle Lake, Wis., and into a newly ...

There’s a “cow” in Sacramento State’s BAC Yard, but don’t expect it to moo. Sac State Sustainability’s new food waste digester not only turns kitchen scraps into safe, nutrient-rich fertilizer, it ...

A Turtle Lake company that converts waste food and beverages into electricity has added new equipment that will help improve productivity and keep more material out of area landfills. Customers in ...

Montauk Energy’s warehouse on Highway 24 will be the site of its project to generate electricity by sending hog waste through ovens. By heating hog waste, the company will generate biogas that will ...

At a once-vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago, a semitruck backed into an unassuming warehouse and unloaded a colorful batch of food scraps and spoiled products. The discards soon ended up ...

It’s no secret that New York City, like many densely populated urban areas throughout history, has a trash and rodent problem. Mountains of bloated trash bags —many containing food waste that attract ...

Sacramento State students make their way to the University Union in 2020. In July 2025, the university’s Sustainability team won a nationwide waste reduction competition, furthering efforts to be a ...

Sustainable municipal waste management solutions often involve waste-to-energy plants that can produce electricity while also providing steam to district heating systems. Efficient steam turbines are ...

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sustainability Assessment at the Grantham Centre, University of Sheffield A new project in Bradwell, Essex, aims to change how we grow food and how we deal with our ...

Efforts to generate energy from hog waste in Eastern North Carolina received a jumpstart from a provision tucked into the 90th page of a bill passed last year that was originally supposed to focus on ...