WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -Wasted food is the largest single component of everyday garbage, but it doesn’t have to be. Hsu’s Growing Supply is working to keep commercial food waste out of the trash while ...

Dear Eartha, I collect my food scraps at home but the restaurant I work for doesn’t. I’d like to help them start composting food waste. What should I do? High five for composting your food scraps. You ...

Restaurant owners and operators interested in learning how implement food scrap composting can attend a workshop hosted by the High Country Conservation Center on Jan. 28. The event runs from 11 a.m.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. After a successful two-year pilot, Chick-fil-A has plans to ...

In an industry fueled by consumption, sustainability is often not the first thought of a thriving restaurant industry. From food waste to plastic drinking cups and straws; dumpsters and landfills find ...

Landfill space is a precious and possibly finite commodity in an urban area. The Orchard Ridge Landfill in Menomonee Falls, the largest in the state, was close to capacity in 2019 with a pile of waste ...

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...

As a child, Joycelyn Chui often helped her grandmother in the kitchen. She would separate eggshells and onion peels in little bowls, to compost them in her grandmother’s garden. For Chui, sorting and ...

We have all been in situations when going out to eat where we receive a volume of food that is simply impossible for us to consume in one sitting. We have a few options in this situation: We can take ...