PORTLAND, Maine — Maine has decided that eating like a pig could be a good thing, especially for schools looking to cut down on food waste. A law saying schools can give food scraps away to pig ...

Researchers are increasingly finding that what pigs eat is not just a farm management issue but a public health story, with everyday items from kitchen scraps to plastic-tainted products leaving a ...

Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...

DARRINGTON — After eating a meal at school, students in the Darrington School District don’t put their leftover food in the trash. In the dining area, there is a particular bin, with a sign above it ...

A new law in Maine that says schools can give food waste away to pig farmers has taken effect. The practice of feeding human food waste to pigs goes back millennia, but some school districts in Maine ...