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The leader of Edinburgh Council has said the mountains of rubbish on its streets has brought “into sharp focus” the value of its waste and cleaning workers. Link to full article

The waste-to-energy market is expected to surpass 70bn by 2030, according to a recent study by Global Market Insights, as governments pursue reductions in methane production agreed during COP26. Link to full article

In the 2017 science fiction film Attraction, an alien spaceship arrives on Earth, kicking off an unconventional love story between a human and an alien, with the fate of our planet in the balance. Link to full article

This (surprisingly) not-gross project gives you a steady supply of plant food. Link to full article

The objections to gasification have not changed since the technology was invented: too expensive, too maintenance-intensive, not efficient enough in comparison with conventional incineration. Only Japan has been able to do better. Why is this? Link to full article

Composting does not only help get rid of biowaste while creating useful fertilizer and planting soil. Compost piles also produce heat. Heat that can be used as renewable energy to heat houseswater. Link to full article

No one said implementing SB 1383 would be easy. Well, except possibly someone in San Francisco, a city that has been successfully collecting food scraps for 25 years and has already set a North American record for composting and recycling. Link to full article

The local authority believes it would be the first in the country to collect the waste in this way, although it noted a similar scheme was already under way in Paris. Link to full article

A new study led from the University of Waterloo discovered greenhouse gas production is significantly less when biobased residues like compost replaces widely used nitrogen fertilizer during spring freeze-thaw events in cold temperate regions. Link to full article

How to build (and tend) your very own pile of green gold. Link to full article