Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edward Humes illuminates the fate of the world's daily waste in his new book, "Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal ...

Researchers are repurposing waste bread into a medium that can kick start fermentation in food and beverage products, such as sourdough, yoghurt, and wine. Bread is one of the highest food waste ...

Where our pee and poo go is rarely top of mind when we flush the toilet. But it's hard to ignore it in places like Everest Base Camp or Patagonia, where mountaineers and hikers are forced to do their ...

You may have heard how the BPA (bisphenol A) in some food-packaging plastics has been linked to various health problems. Scientists are thus developing a more innocuous alternative, and it's made from ...

The statistics are sobering: In the United States, 63 million tons of food are wasted every year. Food waste accounts for 21 percent of all fresh water used in the United States, and takes up 21 ...