Commercial

The Johnson County, Kan., Department of Health and Environment awarded Burns & McDonnell the contract to assist in developing a solid waste management plan (SWMP) to provide the vision and framework to guide future activities and develop the...

Advancing the food banking model globally will play a critical role in achieving the zero hunger sustainable development goal, according to a new report from The Global FoodBanking Network...

In New York City, commercial buildings alone generate tons of trash—more than 3.5 billion tons a year. That’s according to Ushma Mehta, co-founder of ThinkZero, a waste reduction and diversion company that conducts waste audits. Mehta moderated a...

Results of a new six-phase study confirmed that compostable foodservice packaging can be effectively used as a feedstock in commercial composting facilities. The testing, funded by the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) and the Biodegradable...

On October 1, Austin, Texas, rolled out the final phase of its Universal Recycling Ordinance, which mandates that food-permitted businesses donate or compost leftover food...

BioHiTech Global announced the results of an independent lifecycle assessment (LCA) of its aerobic digester solution for food waste conducted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware...