Refuse teams in Bath are preparing to launch food waste collections in the city. The weekly collections will begin next month and see around 72,000 households benefitting from the service, reports The Bath Chronicle.
When it comes to trash, Austria–the land of skiing, Mozart and The Sound of Music–is the world leader in the amount it diverts from landfills. Metro Vancouver wants to be right up there with them by 2015, when it plans to divert at least 70 per cent of the region’s garbage through recycling programs, reports New Westminster News Leader.
Which waste is the best to convert to energy - animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground food favorites? That's what a Midwest scientist and a group of researchers are exploring at the Minnesota State Fair, reports Reuters.