U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data shows that less than 5% of residential food waste is composted. States, municipalities and private-sector companies are pushing to make composting as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. When it comes to sustainability, many Americans separate their ...

Nina Shoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Shoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into soil ...

Every single food scrap that ends up in a landfill breaks a natural cycle that has sustained life on Earth for millions of years. For most of human history, food scraps returned to the ground. Peels, ...