Tag: ORGANICS

June 6, 2022

The Compost Manufacturing Alliance (CMA) is a compost manufacturer owned and operated third party certifier of compostable food service products. Since 2017, CMA has rapidly grown to be North America’s premier compostable products field research experts. This session will address […]

July 13, 2020

California’s Senate Bill 1383 could mean big changes for landfills, which will have to find a home for organics that they will no longer be able to bury. The bill will have a particular impact on landfills that have been […]

January 28, 2020

TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Russellville, Ark.-based Denali Water Solutions from the company’s management and The Firmament Group. The transaction is expected […]

November 12, 2019

At an annual meeting of the Montreal Protocol on November 9, more than 70 countries pledged to reduce the amount of food lost due to poor refrigeration. According to an ABC News report, poor refrigeration leads to the loss of […]

June 5, 2019

The Omaha, Neb., City Council rejected Mayor Jean Stothert’s trash contract “compromise” on June 4, as council members still had too many unanswered questions and too many residents were still unhappy with the multimillion-dollar bid. According to a KETV ABC […]

April 18, 2019

The U.S. wastes 63 million tons or $218 billion of food each year—that is roughly 40 percent of food in the country. In addition, food waste represents more than $75 billion in costs to American farms and food businesses, like […]

March 27, 2019

The world cannot sustainably feed nearly 10 billion global citizens by 2050 if food loss and waste remains between 30 and 50 percent of annual food production. There needs to be a positive impact on consumption and production patterns. Consumer […]

February 21, 2019

Nearly four years after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s goal of sending zero waste to landfill by 2030, three key initiatives to obtaining that goal have been put on hold. In a recent report, Waste […]

February 7, 2019

Cities and states are uniquely positioned to take on the challenges of dealing with food waste and are increasingly motivated to do so. They are charged with reducing massive volumes of material going to landfill; many are working to meet […]

December 27, 2018

Volunteers from One Generation Away in Nashville, Tenn., collected more than 1,000 pounds of food on Christmas Day to deliver to elderly and disabled communities. The food collected would have otherwise been thrown away, and the nonprofit rescues from area […]

December 10, 2018

Using the cities of Denver, Nashville and New York to create a baseline study, Natural Resources Defense Council developed a comprehensive report addressing food waste. The main objectives of the study, “Estimating Quantities and Types of Food Waste at the […]

November 27, 2018

From adjusting buffet hours to using smaller portions, several casinos in Las Vegas are ramping up their efforts to reduce food waste. MGM Resorts International and Three Square Food Bank have undertaken a banquet food rescue program that is still […]

November 14, 2018

Rethink Food Waste through Economics and Data (ReFED), a nonprofit committed to reducing the $218 billion of food waste in the United States, released its “2018 U.S. Food Waste Investment Report.” The report tracks key trends in the food waste […]

October 10, 2018

A Philadelphia-based company that provides food preservation and waste reduction solutions for fresh produce has introduced a way to predict the health of crops based on their genes. AgroFresh Solutions Inc. recently launched the FreshCloud Predictive Screening solution that uses […]

October 8, 2018

Expansion of New York City’s organics collection program has been put on hold because not enough people are participating in it. Five years ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a pilot program in the hopes of collecting hundreds of thousands […]

September 28, 2018

A technology company that works to reduce food waste has teamed up with the National Football League (NFL) and other organizations to salvage untouched excess food that is often thrown away. Since 2016, Copia has been working with the San […]

September 27, 2018

At the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, countries committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3, calling for the world to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030. Now, three years in, a group of sustainable food […]

September 6, 2018

Online grocer venues are gaining traction. Even e-commerce giant Amazon is among those that have added food sales to their portfolio, and it has publicly stated its plans to expand operations in this market. Meanwhile, this evolving shopping trend adds […]

August 17, 2018

While the food industry struggles to meet increasing global production demands, more food reaches U.S. landfills and incinerators than any other waste, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In an effort to help solve this problem, Full Harvest, […]

August 15, 2018

A new report issued by the Solid Waste Association of North America’s (SWANA) Applied Research Foundation (ARF) documents the collection of yard waste, analyzing schedules, processes and costs, while looking for opportunities to improve efficiency and mitigate risks. The report, […]