Waste is a byproduct of every industry, even those that produce food. Crops and animals may feed the masses, but there are items on the farm that require disposal or recycling. Farm waste management ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. — State and foundation grants exceeding $3 million will assist Michigan State University researchers in developing technology for smaller farms to turn animal waste into usable ...
Reducing food waste can shrink agriculture’s environmental footprint while helping to feed the hungry and conserve resources. But since food waste occurs across all sectors of the food chain, reducing ...
US researchers have found that transforming plant waste like corn stalks and forest debris into a liquid called bio-oil can solve two huge problems at once. First, it removes carbon from the air and ...
Last year, Cannon Michael left over 100 acres of ripe cantaloupes unharvested. The sixth generation grower could not justify paying workers to pick them all because the cost of labor, packing, and, ...
Federal researchers are working to convert agricultural waste and discarded plastics into battery-grade graphite, a material that the United States has not mined domestically since the 1950s. The ...
As the saying goes, seeing is believing. For me, it was walking knee-deep in perfectly edible romaine leaves that were going to be churned back into the ground simply because only 30 percent of the ...
The Kiteezi landfill near Kampala was expanded as part of the Kampala Institutional Infrastructure Development Project, allowing for the storage and treatment of ...
Last year, Cannon Michael left over 100 acres of ripe cantaloupes unharvested. The sixth generation grower could not justify paying workers to pick them all because the cost of labor, packing, and, ...