With spring right around the corner, it might be time to take a much-needed look at your garden. Believe it or not, your plants could get a big boost from the stuff you typically toss in the trash.

In residential buildings, people throw out a lot of garbage, and a huge portion of it is food. An estimated 30% of the garbage of a typical household is food scraps and food that’s gone to waste. When ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into ...

After breaking their Ramadan fast outside a mosque in Malaysia, people throw their leftovers into a machine that converts the food scraps into organic fertilizer for crops. The modest government ...

Americans throw away between 30% and 40% of the nation’s food supply each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That waste, which adds up to billions of pounds annually, ends up ...

Stanford-founded Nitricity raised $50 million from Chipotle and Khosla Ventures to turn California’s abundant almond shell waste into organic fertilizer. The startup’s “Ash Tea” product reduces ...

SAN FRANCISCO and FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nitricity, the climate scaleup electrifying the production of nitrogen fertilizer worldwide, today announced it has closed a $50 ...

Researchers in AIST developed the technology for efficient production of organic liquid fertilizer from wastewater in collaboration with IAI CORPORATION (IAI), Shizuoka University, Industrial Research ...

Soil health restoration, carbon farming incentives and residue-free food demand are bolstering adoption of organic nutrient solutions. Organic fertilizer market is evolving from traditional manure ...

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and Khosla Ventures LLC are among investors providing a fresh round of funding for a startup that makes fertilizer from ground almond shells. Fremont-based Nitricity, ...