By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

Lakeland leaders are considering whether the city could turn human waste into profit. City commissioners voted to hire Tampa-based Geosyntec Consultants Inc. to do a cost-benefit analysis to determine ...

This column is about composting human waste. While the more sensible reader might be tempted to respond by disregarding the following 750 words as juvenile potty humor, let me assure you, I aim to ...

Tell us: What do you want to happen to your body after you die? Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die? Do you want to be cremated, buried, or given an epic Viking burial?

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — The city of Lakeland is thinking about getting into the fertilizer business — and using tons of human waste it already collects to do it. Commissioners recently voted to spend ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. As a civil rights lawyer, Cunningham defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...

In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees have built a “vessel” they ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...