Scientists have taken the first step at estimating the best large-scale uses for food processing waste, first analyzing its contents and, based on those findings, proposing production opportunities ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Over 160 million tons of food waste is generated each year from food growers and processors. Some of it is byproducts; sometimes, it’s ...

Each year, humans produce billions of pounds of waste. Of that waste, a significant percentage is produced by food manufacturing processes, which could range from unused potato skins to random food ...

Organic matter self-heats up to 55 degrees due to the vital activity of microorganisms and is kept in this mode from 24 to 72 ...

State Rep. Paul Friel, D-26th Dist., has introduced a bill (H.B. 2393) that seeks to change the way Pennsylvania handles food processing residue — addressing the hazards this waste can cause for rural ...

CARLISLE - Cumberland County commissioners voted Wednesday to join a budding inter-governmental effort to help push for greater regulation of the use of food processing by-products as fertilizer on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – There is money to be made – and potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – by finding a second life for the potato peels, fried dough particles, cheese whey and other industrial ...

COLUMBUS — There is money to be made — and potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — by finding a second life for the potato peels, fried dough particles, cheese whey and other industrial ...