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

If your garden soil is sandy and light, adding compost will help retain moisture and nutrients. If your soil is heavy with ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The best compost bins can handle everything from your morning coffee and eggs, to the veggie stir fry you had for dinner and any additional scraps, peels and grounds over the course of a day.

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

Shasta College won an award for its 'Carbon Sinks' project, composting food and agricultural waste with student help.

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