Stale bread. A surplus of scrambled eggs. Unused broccoli stems. Much of the detritus regularly carted from Yale’s dining hall kitchens doesn’t end up in the landfill — instead, it is taken to a ...

Imagine a world no longer habitable by humans, where only heaps of trash remain as our legacy. We haven't reached that scenario yet, but we are producing incomprehensible amounts of waste, at a faster ...