Eco Factor: Food waste being converted into methane to produce electricity. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that food waste accounts for about 20% of all landfill waste and each year more than 30 million tons of food waste makes...

Torfaen County Borough Council, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and Caerphilly County Borough Council, all from South Wales valley, are making efforts to build a plant to handle food and garden waste. The trio’s facility is expected to...

Despite the fact that millions of people around the world are undernourished and often do not know where their next meal will come from, food is being squandered incessantly in well-off nations. Providing a solution to the problem, South...

Eco Factor: Onion waste transformed into electricity, heat and cattle feed. Gills Onions, the nation’s largest processor of fresh onions, has built an anaerobic digester system at its Oxnard, California facility, which will help the...

Eco Factor: Energy-efficient refrigerator with a built-in composter. How many times have you bought food items that were already present in your refrigerator? I guess the number would be more than once a week. This means the food items you...

Eco Factor: Food waste disposal system uses compost to nourish organic vegetables. By the year 2020 there will be far less land available for irrigation than what will actually be required to provide food for the billions of humans and...

Many people think of food waste as a benign substance. It rots down in the landfill anyway, so no problem, right?

Applying biogas technology to an urban environment needs help in a commercial scale. Amid, the increasing demand for alternative energy sources transforming food waste into clean household cooking fuel is a welcome concept. India’s...