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These Guys Make Edible Cement From Food Waste – And You Can Literally Add it to Your Gingerbread House
A pair of Japanese researchers have launched a startup that turns food waste into cement with 4-times better bending resistance.
The potential applications are endless,...
Bronx Housing Complex Comes With Giant Machine Stomach to Turn All Food Waste Into Fertilizer
A new community housing development in the Bronx will feature a cool piece of kit: an on-site aerobic digester that can turn 1,100 pounds...
Hundreds of US Cities Composting Their Food Waste Helps Farmers and Cuts Tons of Emissions
Last week, new water restrictions issued for millions of residents of Southern California highlighted the need to make agriculture more efficient—and a new statewide...
Using the Sun to Fight Food Waste And Stretch Yields
Farming households in rural India are earning extra money for their food that goes unsold by putting it through solar food dehydrators. In a...
Google is Creating Tools to Tackle Food Waste and Hunger at its Moonshot Factory
A Google offshoot has created two new programs which make it easy for food producers, suppliers, and commercial kitchens to route unneeded food to...
Vermont Becomes First State to ‘Ban’ Food Waste, in Favor of Composting—And Cutting Landfill Waste in Half
Short of creating a new police department consisting of ‘Oscar the Grouch’ and his friends, Vermont has done almost everything it can to eliminate...
All-Purpose Cleaner is Made Entirely of Food Waste Collected in NYC—and Ditches Plastic Spray Bottles
A New York company called Veles is selling an all-purpose cleaner made of food waste collected from Manhattan cafeterias, and ditches plastic spray bottles.
Researchers Use ‘Flash’ to Turn Plastic Trash and Food Waste into Valuable Material
Not only is the speedy process surprisingly inexpensive, it could save thousands of pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
Scientists Discover How to Make Eco-Friendly Sunscreen From a Source of Food Waste: Cashew Shells
A team of international scientists has found an environmentally friendly way of producing potential sunscreens by using cashew nut shells, instead of discarding them...
Determined Teen Siblings Who’ve Turned 15,000 Pounds of Food Waste into Compost Awarded Thousands to Continue
This dynamic young duo has saved thousands of pounds of food waste from ending up in landfills – and soon they'll be saving even more.
In Bid to Cut Food Waste, Kellogg’s is Using Their Rejected Cornflakes to Make Beer
They're donating a portion of the beer's sales to charity, too.
Brewing Company Has the Tastiest Solution for Food Waste
There is so much surplus bread being created in the UK every year, that homeless shelters can't even take in any more loafs destined for the...
New USDA Guidelines Will Prevent Thousands of Pounds of Food Waste
The USDA is planning on nixing “use by” and “sell by” dates so consumers stop throwing away perfectly edible food out of confusion.
He Aims to Solve Hunger in Chicago by Bringing Food Waste Down to Zero
His ingenious app, Zero Percent, connects restaurants and schools that have surplus food with nonprofits that bring the food to those in need.
This Machine Can Turn Your Food Waste Into Biofuel Gas For Cooking (WATCH)
If you never get around to eating your food leftovers, this machine will use them to cook your next meal.
Set it up in your back...
High End Distillers Join the Fight Against Food Waste
Makers of high-end spirits are buying overripe, misshapen, and undersized fruit directly from farmers across America, doing their part to reduce food waste.
From California...
Humorous Ugly Fruit Campaign Reduces Food Waste in France
A French grocer has increased its customer base by 24 percent since launching its Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables campaign this summer.
Railing against the food...
Oslo Turns Food Waste into Fuel for Buses
A plant in Norway last week began converting household food waste into liquid biogas fuel to run the city's 135 buses. As a result,...
Startups Try To Reroute Food Waste To The Hungry
A pair of brothers in Washington DC are working toward becoming the air traffic controllers of food, trying to redirect discarded food from dumpsters...
Sweden Helps South Korea Convert Food Waste into Biogas
The South Korean city of Ulsan has allowed water generated from processing food waste to run off into the ocean, which can generate methane...