Composting can decrease household waste, contribution to landfills, and drastically reduce one’s carbon footprint. Photo by Sergio Nazareth Semerdjian from Pexels. When quarantine started all the way ...

Food waste composting in the D.C. region is big business. While the District only recently rolled out a curbside composting program, most of the surrounding suburbs have been tackling the issue for ...

The president of the Florida Green Schools PTSA writes that Miami-Dade’s approval of grants to composting and waste-diversion ...

All of the food being thrown away in my house was easy to ignore, until it started getting piled into a plastic container on the kitchen counter. The city of Gainesville provided the container as part ...

Once you're looking for compostable materials, you see them everywhere. "Unofficially anything that was once alive is compostable. It can be treated instead of trashed," said Clay Ezell, Co-owner of ...

The front-page article in the May 16 Times-Call, “Curbside compostables succeeding,” reported that 22% of residents have now elected to pay for curbside pickup of their organic waste, approaching the ...

Four bins to collect different types of the waste stream are installed at McHenry Library as part of a pilot project aimed at achieving zero waste on campus by 2020.

“By refusing to send our trash to the communities adjacent to waste transfer stations, landfills, and incinerators—predominantly low-income communities of color—our city will be taking concrete steps ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — With Massachusetts’ landfills filling up, the question of what to do about waste has generated greater urgency. Landfills have closed across Massachusetts in recent years, and trash ...

There’s a lot of waste that comes out of a classroom daily—dried-up markers, used tissues, filled-out worksheets, half-eaten snacks ... the list goes on. A lot of that trash can feel inevitable. But ...

Silicone food storage bags keep food fresher for longer while reducing the risk of plastic contamination in the kitchen.