Tag: Food Waste
ReMix Organics shaking up food waste industry
After moving to Providence in 2007 from the Netherlands, where he studied environmental policy and sustainable development, Leo Pollock noticed gaps in local food...
Social media regulation will be no easy feat
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his controversial decisions as its owner have fueled a new wave of calls for regulating social media companies....
Food waste in U.S. is hurting our wallets and climate
You see it at most holiday feasts: piles of unwanted food. With luck, hungry relatives will discover some of it before the inevitable green...
Curbside food-waste collection
In the final year of his studies at the University of Rhode Island, Brendan Loflin wanted to do something meaningful but wasn’t sure how.
“Other...
PBN on WJAR-TV, July 30, 2018
With its only landfull nearing capacity, Rhode Island is off to a slow start trying to curb food waste
Every week, PBN Editor Mark S....
Does Rhode Island have right approach on food waste?
Tucked in a residential neighborhood of mostly rural Charlestown is the state’s largest commercial-scale compost-processing facility.
Second-generation Earth Care Farm owner Jayne Merner Senecal, whose...
An Earthly plan for food waste
Frank Mastrobuono, a former environmental scientist, always considered himself the “outdoorsy type.”
He used his “drive to go back to business school” to start a...
Will R.I. be ready for mandate on composting?
Rhode Island may not be ready for a new statewide composting law that goes into effect Jan. 1, with two needed food-waste-to-energy facilities yet...
EcoRI Earth diverts 40,000 pounds of material from Central Landfill
PROVIDENCE – EcoRI Earth, a residential food scrap-collection program serving Providence and Pawtucket, has diverted 40,000 pounds of nutrient-rich material from the state’s Central...
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