Extraordinary amounts of energy, water, and capital are put into food systems. However, anywhere from 30 to 40% of the food that is produced ends up in landfills in the United States. What if there ...

Amid the tall ceilings of a massive lab, innovation is bubbling to the surface. "We're trying to convert the food waste to bioplastic," said Drew Wang, the principal investigator of a new project at ...

With food the top type of landfill waste in the United States, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale researcher looks for ways to divert that waste into a process for making biodegradable ...