Restaurants save $7 for each $1 invested in cutting food waste, report shows

Businesses that scaled back food production, placed smaller orders and upcycled excess food into new meals could reduce waste by 26% after one year, the study found. 

By Kevin Whiteley • Feb. 22, 2019

Is New York's 2030 'zero waste' goal receding from reach?

Three key initiatives — single-stream recycling, curbside organics expansion and "save-as-you-throw" — are on hold indefinitely. Now, both skeptics and boosters are questioning whether it's practical or possible to hit the mark.

By Cole Rosengren • Feb. 20, 2019

Report shows two straight years of flat financing for WTE, biogas in US

While five farm-based anaerobic digesters came online in 2018, there were few other notable waste-related projects, according to the 2019 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook.

By Cody Ellis • Feb. 19, 2019

Los Angeles City Council approves RecycLA settlement with seven service providers

A new contract amendment will bring a number of changes to the major franchise program — including city funding to cover controversial recycling service fees and a higher contamination threshold.

By Cole Rosengren , Rina Li • Updated Feb. 20, 2019

Inside Republic's recycling messaging, and an Arizona MRF, with two VPs

Pete Keller and Richard Coupland, the company's primary public faces on recycling, recently met with Waste Dive to talk contract pricing, GHG calculations, end markets and more.

By Cole Rosengren • Feb. 14, 2019

Waste Management CEO talks climate change, ocean plastic and 'zero waste'

Waste Dive sat down with Jim Fish for an exclusive interview at the company's sustainability forum in Phoenix to parse out its latest environmental messaging.

By Cole Rosengren • Feb. 6, 2019

Inside Vanguard Renewables, the Northeast's biggest food waste recycler

The Massachusetts company recently opened its latest farm-based anaerobic digester, with seven more on the way. Waste Dive sat down with CEO John Hanselman to learn why his business works where others have failed.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 31, 2019

Report: Sensors and other tech could reduce food waste by 7%

According to the World Economic Forum, multiple innovations in the food supply chain can help improve traceability and identify where losses may be occurring.

By Matt Leonard • Jan. 30, 2019

New Washington state bill sets 2030 food waste goal

The bill, which calls for Washington to achieve a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030, would require the adoption of "a state wasted food reduction and food waste diversion plan" by October 2020.

By Rina Li • Jan. 24, 2019

The value of math-driven organics policy in three different states

A recent webinar from The Composting Collaborative explored how carefully analyzing data before implementing new regulations can reduce costs and increase efficiencies for food waste diversion programs.

By Katie Pyzyk • Jan. 23, 2019

Recology leans into recycling solutions with $33M San Francisco upgrades

The improvements include seven optical sorters (including three new units from France) and expanded capacity for organics at a local transfer station.

By Rina Li • Jan. 22, 2019

Vermont may walk back statewide organics collection requirement

The Agency of Natural Resources recommends haulers only be required to collect organics from multi-family and commercial sites, but still wants to enact a universal food waste disposal ban by 2020.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 17, 2019

Food waste doesn't have to be expensive: 4 cost-effective recycling strategies

Rubicon Global's Ryan Cooper breaks down the many factors – waste audits, transportation logistics, local markets and more – that can make organics recycling viable even without regulatory drivers.

By Ryan Cooper • Jan. 14, 2019

6 key questions for the waste and recycling industry in 2019

We'll be keeping an eye on recycling, climate change, landfills, alternative technologies, corporate consolidation, labor issues and much more in the year ahead.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 9, 2019

Scrap Collector: Washington state to consider composting the dead, 40-year-old plastic Doritos bag found on beach

Plus: a recycling opportunity that'll thrill the goats in your life, and South Korea's plastic bag ban.

By Rina Li • Jan. 4, 2019

Waste Management's 20-year path to 'moonshot' climate goal: cleaner fleet, more recycling

The company's 2018 Sustainability Report offers the most detailed plans yet on offsetting four times the amount of GHG emissions it produces.

By Cole Rosengren • Jan. 1, 2019

Our 10 best stories of 2018

Catch up on some of our biggest stories involving Waste Management, Republic Services, Waste Connections, GFL Environmental, Rubicon Global, TerraCycle and, of course, China.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 21, 2018

UK waste strategy calls for packaging EPR, widespread organics collection

The lengthy plan, billed as a path toward a more circular economy, includes a variety of strategies to reduce waste and improve recycling.

By Katie Pyzyk • Dec. 19, 2018

New food date labels provide the clarity consumers need, survey says

Since the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute launched the campaign in 2017, 87% of products have carried "Best If Used By" and "Use By" labels.

By Cathy Siegner • Dec. 19, 2018

Boston inches toward final 'zero waste' plan, eyes curbside organics pilot

While enthusiastic about the expansive scope of a new report, many advocates remain unhappy with the lack of specific "living wage" contract language for recycling workers.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 17, 2018

SWEEP standard — LEED for waste and recycling — releases ambitious proposal

After more than two years of work by many of the industry's biggest corporate and government players, the Solid Waste Environmental Excellence Protocol now has draft language ready for comments.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 17, 2018

Scrap Collector: Virginia's landfill solar aspirations, garbage arsonist(s) terrorizing Orlando

Plus: a new online waste sorting game, NASA's plans for astronaut trash and China's new food waste solution (hint: it's cockroaches).

By Rina Li • Dec. 14, 2018

Whole Foods stops using compostable containers with PFAS

A study on food packaging in five major grocery companies found that more than two-thirds may have been treated with PFAS. Advocates are now calling for commercial composters to stop accepting the material.

By Kristine Sherred • Dec. 12, 2018

Trump signs Farm Bill with unprecedented level of food waste action

The bill includes $125 million for local reduction and composting pilots, plans for a new USDA food waste study, multiple provisions to boost biogas and a variety of other details to enhance food recovery.

By Cole Rosengren • Updated Dec. 21, 2018

Gold Medal pursues new type of vertical integration with Apple Valley deal

This recent acquisition gives the New Jersey company a stake in the soon-to-open Entsorga West Virginia MBT project, plus access to new markets such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

By Cole Rosengren • Dec. 11, 2018