Google has signed a new carbon capture deal to create biochar from landfill waste. The search giant this week signed an agreement with Commonwealth Sortation LLC, an affiliate of AMP Robotics ...

In 2021 Californians disposed of nearly 39 million tons of trash in landfills according to Cal Recycle’s 2021 Waste Characterization report. That’s a rate of about 2,000 pounds per person per year.

Most organic household waste ends up in landfills where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into ...

One year after the city of Aspen imposed an organic waste diversion ordinance, the amount of food waste diverted to the compost section of the Pitkin County landfill increased by 70%. The organic ...

Clemens Stockreiter is CEO of RE:CIRCLE Solutions, a food waste processing company in Ontario, California. As someone who has spent years working in the waste management sector, I’ve watched ...

As someone who has spent years working in the waste management sector, I’ve watched California make bold climate commitments while simultaneously maintaining policies that undermine our state’s ...

By feeding plants with energy and CO₂ from decomposing trash, the dome turns a landfill into an unlikely food source.

Urban scavengers like spotted hyenas are preventing more than 1,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually in Ethiopia's ...