Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

Meal kits reduce food waste but often create more packaging. Now companies are redesigning materials, delivery systems, and ...

When I was in New York for Climate Week, I spotted a restaurant advertising “Save the planet, eat local.” Even at many of the events I attended, organizers went out of their way to highlight the local ...

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Imagine buying three gallons of milk at the store, driving home and pouring one of them down the sink. Or ordering three pizzas, then just dumping one of them into the garbage can. That’s not just a ...

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Raffaele Mezzenga has turned chicken feathers into fuel cell membranes, found myriad purposes for the milk protein whey, and used black bean proteins in aerogels for capturing carbon dioxide from air.