In a more perfect world, leftover food would find its way to the starving people in far-flung places that many parents scolded children about. Instead, as Roberto Ferdman at The Washington Post notes, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EVERETT, Wash. — A year after Seattle required residents to recycle food scraps, the results have been impressive: In 2010, the city’s contractor diverted 90 ...

SEATTLE — Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - and corpses to crops? In Seattle, a local nonprofit group wants to become the world’s first organization to offer as a service human composting, in which the ...

EVERETT, Wash. -- A year after the city of Seattle required residents to recycle food scraps, the results have been impressive: In 2010, the city's contractor diverted 90,000 tons of Seattleites' ...

Americans waste a startling amount of food. Last year, National Geographic reported that the average family tosses out over 1,160 pounds of food annually. And now Seattle is implementing a ...

Dozens of cities nationwide now give residents the option of putting their household food scraps in a curbside compost bin. Seattle is looking at making it a requirement. The city is nearly 4 percent ...

SEATTLE — An ordinance barring people from throwing their coffee grounds, pizza scraps and other potential compost into trash cans is being challenged by critics who say the liberal city is turning ...

SEATTLE – An environmental effort in Seattle to stop residents from tossing food scraps and other compost into the trash was ruled unconstitutional on Wednesday by a judge who said trash collectors ...

SEATTLE - A Seattle ordinance that bars people from throwing their coffee grounds, pizza scraps and other potential compost into their trash cans is being challenged by critics who say the liberal ...