An orange peel hits the trash—and just like that, valuable plant fuel gets tossed away. That moment happens every day in ...

Traditional composting is a long process. It can take six months to more than a year to make usable compost for your garden. This is fine if you have the time and keep the process going continuously, ...

Even in the garden, “waste not, want not” is good advice. To keep useful nutrients and organic matter in your yard and put them to work, make compost from your yard waste. “Compost is basically just ...

Why upstream organics collection is the missing link in participation and contamination control.
 By Michelle Horneff-Cohen, ...

Although we should try to keep as little of our organic waste as possible from going to the landfill, not everyone has the outdoor space for a compost heap. The Puresky Waste Composter is designed to ...

Compost at home? Don’t I have to send all my kitchen scraps to the curb in my green waste bin? Nope! They don’t ALL have to go into your green bin. They just can’t go into the landfill, according to ...

New Bedford and Dartmouth residents can get free composting tools and learn best practices in April to reduce waste.

Avon’s commercial composting pilot program, which kicked off in November, is already diverting a significant amount of waste ...