Composting
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Composting, Food Waste, General, Operations
Depackaging Strategies Expand Albuquerque’s Organics Diversion
Top Photo Credit: Soilutions 2026 Soilutions has been building toward higher volume food waste processing for several years, and a new partnership in Albuquerque, New Mexico shows what that runway can look like when collection, depackaging, and compost manufacturing are designed as one system. In 2024, BioCycle profiled how Dawn and Justin Dewey acquired Soilutions...
Food Waste
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Food Waste, Policies + Regulations
Industry Coalitions Back Bipartisan Food Date Labeling Act to Cut Food Waste
Top Photo Credit: Adobe Express In a joint letter to congressional leaders, the Zero Food Waste Coalition (ZFWC) and the Consumer Brands Association (CBA) urged swift passage of the bipartisan Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, arguing that inconsistent and confusing date labels are fueling millions of tons of unnecessary food waste each year. Addressed...
AD & Biogas
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AD & Biogas, Food Waste, Markets
State Regulators Push to Elevate RNG as Strategic Energy Resource
Top Photo Credit: Adobe Express A growing coalition of state utility regulators is seeking to formally recognize renewable natural gas (RNG) as a strategic energy resource, signaling a potential shift in how RNG is positioned within broader state and federal energy planning frameworks. According to a press release, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss...
Markets
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Composting, Markets
Minnesota Opens $10 Million Organics Infrastructure Grant Opportunity
Top Photo Credit: Adobe Express The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has opened a substantial funding opportunity aimed at expanding organics management infrastructure across the state. Through its Climate Smart Food Systems (CSFS): Statewide Organics Management Infrastructure Grant, the agency is making approximately $10 million available for projects that will build or enhance capacity to...
Climate
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Connections, Soil Health
More Nutrient Cycling, Less Footloose
Top Photo: Wheat growing in the biosolids treated soils. Credit: Deidre Griffin La Hue Sally Brown The reason that they call natural cycles cycles is because they are supposed to go around and around. One of the things that we humans have been successful at is interrupting those cycles. We have excelled at linear thinking...
Policies + Regulations
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Food Waste, Policies + Regulations
Does Curbside Food Scraps Collection Access Increase Household Food Waste?
Top Photo Credit: Adobe Express A new working paper presented at the 2025 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Joint Annual Meeting is raising important questions for municipalities and organics recycling operators about how curbside composting programs may influence household food purchasing behavior. In Reducing Waste, Changing Habits: The...