With spring right around the corner, it might be time to take a much-needed look at your garden. Believe it or not, your plants could get a big boost from the stuff you typically toss in the trash.

In residential buildings, people throw out a lot of garbage, and a huge portion of it is food. An estimated 30% of the garbage of a typical household is food scraps and food that’s gone to waste. When ...

Americans throw away between 30% and 40% of the nation’s food supply each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That waste, which adds up to billions of pounds annually, ends up ...

Researchers in AIST developed the technology for efficient production of organic liquid fertilizer from wastewater in collaboration with IAI CORPORATION (IAI), Shizuoka University, Industrial Research ...

Stanford-founded Nitricity raised $50 million from Chipotle and Khosla Ventures to turn California’s abundant almond shell waste into organic fertilizer. The startup’s “Ash Tea” product reduces ...

SAN FRANCISCO and FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nitricity, the climate scaleup electrifying the production of nitrogen fertilizer worldwide, today announced it has closed a $50 ...

This 2023, you may want to make an effort to reduce your contribution to landfill. The easiest way to do that is to collect your kitchen scraps and turn them into compost using a tool like the Reencle ...

Inside Look is a Modesto Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Divert Inc. has started up a Turlock plant that turns ...

Noreen Thomas of Moorhead has a dirty job ahead of her: figuring out how to turn food waste into fertilizer and, ultimately, food again. As one of two 2022-2023 recipients of a grant from the West ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and Khosla Ventures LLC are among investors providing a fresh round of funding for a startup that makes fertilizer from ground almond shells. Fremont-based Nitricity, ...