Vitamix may be best known for its blenders, but the company continues to innovate when it comes to food recycling. This spring, Vitamix debuted its third-generation FoodCycler machine, the FoodCycler ...

A typical fork labeled “biodegradable ” won’t break down quickly in a backyard composter. At an industrial composting facility, it might still take weeks. But a new countertop composting machine can ...

Below are four high-tech home composters that will easily allow you to turn food waste into flora feed. If you’re a family ...

8. Patented Vortech Grinding System I know a few other journalists who have tested other countertop composter brands, and their leading complaint has been that the machine doesn't break down the ...

You’ve got a dishwasher, microwave, and toaster. Soon, you might have a countertop composter. A company named Pela is making an appliance called Lomi that turns everyday food scraps into dirt ...

Pela's countertop composter Lomi brings the eco-friendly practice of composting out of the backyard and into your home. Lomi is a countertop composter for disposing of food waste, which also promises ...

Some sustainable living changes — like swapping out plastic bags for reusable food storage — are relatively easy. Others — like diverting food waste from landfills — can feel pretty overwhelming.

In the course of a week, my kitchen produces a shocking quantity of what we might think of as edible trash: apple peels, garlic nubs, a bit of gristle from a steak, Dorito dust, tea bags, the ...