UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and ...

A successful legal fight from residents banned sludge for two decades. The threat of a new legal fight is bringing it back.

Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made ...

Using materials that are normally discarded -- human urine, wood/plant ash, and paddy straw -- Aalam Veer has designed an ...

Human urine is emerging as an unlikely climate solution, and a Swiss startup is betting that what we flush away could help feed crops and cut pollution at the same time. By turning this nutrient-rich ...

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 ...

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, ...

Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there’s a major blind spot when it comes to potential contaminants. Fertilizers ...

Human waste usually gets flushed away, but instead of going down the toilet, it can help the planet and solve global fertilizer shortages, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings ...