When it comes to solving the issue of food waste, plenty of buzzy words are thrown around: composting, upcycling, even closed-loop manufacturing. Luckily, HRN has brought on plenty of experts to help break down why we throw out so much food, and solutions to offer our favorite staples a second...

On today's episode of Harvesting Issues, Dave, Nastassia and The Rest welcome Heather Marold Thomason of Primal Supply Meats, a whole animal butcher in Philadelphia. Heather fields a variety of questions from listeners on meat cuts, prices, USDA regulations, and more. Plus, Heather talks through her decision tree she uses...

Host Jenna Liut speaks with Washington Post journalist, Laura Reiley, about her ongoing coverage of the effects that COVID-19 is having on the food supply chain, including why we have seen a paradoxical rise in both food waste and food insecurity; why the meat industry is being hit particularly hard...

Whether you’ve been stepping up your home gardening, relying on pantry staples, or ordering in during your quarantine - it’s a good time to consider the amount of food going in and out of our homes. For that reason, this week’s show is all about waste. From “quarantine cuisine,” to...

What exactly happens after you throw something out? (Spoiler alert: given the current state of the recycling industry these days, it probably goes straight to landfill.) So how is waste processed, where and by whom? Waste Dive journalist Ev Crunden joins host Jenna Liut to give a comprehensive overview of...

Good food should be tasted not wasted! Today, Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Sabine the CMO and co-founder of Food for All (@foodforallapp), the app that connects restaurants that have end-of-day excess to customers in the neighborhood looking for inexpensive and delicious meals. The result is less food...

The Rich Earth Institute is pioneering technology to capture and convert human urine into no/low cost fertilizer for agriculture. What will it take to make it universal? It's HRN's annual summer fund drive, this is when we turn to our listeners and ask that you make a donation to help...

Chris Jones returns to the show to talk about hog waste and its impact on water quality. What Doesn't Kill You is powered by Simplecast.

Rick Dove, Senior Advisor to the Waterkeeper Alliance and Riverkeeper for the Neuse River comes back to describe the state response to the disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Florence. What Doesn't Kill You is powered by Simplecast.

In December 2018 Katerina Boagtireva opened NY's first packaging free grocery store. Precycle is the culmination of 3 years of planning and if everything goes according to plan you'll be seeing more of these around soon. The idea is that we should keep waste out of the landfill when we...