Food waste emits methane as it breaks down and rots. Waste pickers are helping set up systems to segregate and collect organic waste, and establishing facilities to compost it. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) ...

The other two new Waste and Reuse Convenience Centers are planned to open later this year at the city Division of Refuse Collection's Alum Creek Transfer Station, 2100 Alum Creek Drive, and the ...

Waste pickers there developed a system themselves to collect organic waste from hotels and restaurants, but few other waste pickers collect food waste. Jeane dos Santos in Salvador said she ...

About 60% of waste in Global South communities is organic, according to GAIA. That’s 130 tons of waste per day in just Malabon city, population 380,000.