With the farm-to-table movement now firmly established at New Orleans eateries, a related trend is starting to catch on: table to farm. A growing number of local restaurants now save "pre-consumer" ...

Much has been made of the farm-to-table restaurant movement. But what happens to all the food that ends up uneaten at the table? In what you might call a burgeoning table-to-farm movement, a small but ...

ASPEN, Colorado – Two area restaurants are the inaugural participants in a new city of Aspen initiative to capture and recycle a long overlooked component of the community’s waste stream – food scraps ...

Andy Schwartz, owner and compost chief with Grow.Eat.Repeat., diverts about 7 tons of food waste from landfills each month through his business and partnership with Well FED Compost. And now he hopes ...

Most restaurants that compost stick to vegetable scraps and coffee grounds. But one Milwaukee restaurant will soon compost as much as it can - even customers' leftovers - thanks to a new pilot program ...

When Kristen Baskin moved to Athens, Georgia, in 2012, she was surprised to find there wasn’t a composting service offered to businesses in town. Composting is a simple process: Businesses place ...

Business groups aren't turning their nose up at the city's plan to require hotels, stadiums, arenas and large-scale food businesses to separate organic waste from regular trash. But some industry ...

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Michael Martinez and Michelle Davilla of L.A. Compost make their rounds in West Covina once a week — he on a Cannondale hybrid, she on a single-speed. Both have cargo trailers attached to their bikes’ ...