Residual food waste, especially grease ... burned or buried. Paper bags: Many restaurants send their orders in large paper bags and those absolutely can and should be recycled or reused.

“It’s about connecting people to food and soil, and it’s about learning and being engaged in the process, and meeting your neighbors, and treating this thing that many people think of as a waste as a ...

Cigarette butts — whose filters contain tiny plastic fibers — are the most common type of plastic waste found in the environment. Food wrappers, plastic bottles, plastic bottle caps, plastic grocery ...

A marketplace for surplus food. ‘Goodie Bag’ connects shops with good, unsold food at a discounted price for people to pick up and enjoy. The app is a fun way ...

According to the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) 2024 Food Waste Index Report, 19% of food available to consumers in 2022 was wasted at the retail, food service, and household level ...

From California to Colorado and beyond, restaurants are rethinking how to approach food waste for a more sustainable ... implementing reusable tote bags for carry-out and delivery orders.

A monthly service fee includes regular machine maintenance as well removal of the processed food waste to a compost distributor that supplies local farms. “It looks expensive on paper,” he ...

About 90 tonnes of recyclable food waste has been sent to landfill due to a fault at Guernsey's waste processing plant that persisted for three weeks, the States has said. The plant at Longue ...

Despite a growing demand from shoppers to cut down on food waste, just 14% say that they fully trust claims of sustainable products and packaging from grocery stores. According to a survey of more ...