food waste

Melinda Tuhus volunteers at a food rescue organization in New Haven. She takes us inside Haven’s Harvest to see the progress of reducing waste and climate impacts — and feeding local people.

The Town of Riverhead hopes to become a model for partnering with nonprofits Long Island Organics Council and Green Inside and Out to launch more municipal drop-off sites for food scraps to be converted into compost.

A sizable portion of waste in Connecticut is heavy food scraps. The state has seen success in collecting food scraps at transfer stations, which keeps them out of the waste stream.

How does an anaerobic digester work? Long Island will be home to among the largest for processing food scraps, yard trimmings and more organic waste.

The story of Connecticut companies converting food waste to other products is central to Lamont’s advocacy for a waste-disposal and recycling bill.

Employees of child care providers in Connecticut will soon receive wage support payments from the state.

West Haven will soon become the first city in Connecticut to offer a curbside food scrap program to all single-family residents.

The Stamford Food Waste Recycling Program has removed nearly 23 tons of food scraps from the city’s garbage system since being launched in June 2021.

Helicopter maker Sikorsky will stay in Connecticut for the next two decades.

WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with Jan Ellen Spiegel, who covers energy, environment and climate change for CT Mirror, about her article, “Efforts to get food out of the waste stream finding more support," as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.