By equipping residents with the knowledge to understand composting’s value, it can make collection services accessible and ...

When it comes to fighting climate change, one of the best approaches is to reduce our carbon footprint. The Nature Conservancy reports that the average carbon footprint for someone in the U.S. is 16 ...

In many households, parents direct their children to clean their plates at the dinner table. An organization that has expanded over the past two years from its roots in Grandview Heights to about a ...

Sophie Chapman always envisioned a landfill as a faraway place. It wasn’t until she took a field trip to the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill with the local youth organization Compost Clubhouse that ...

Students at all of Salem Public Schools’ cafeterias will be composting their food waste this school year starting at Salem ...

Gabriel Schiering (Oakes ’24, business management economics) decided to attend UC Santa Cruz for a variety of reasons. He was drawn to the university for its reputation for environmental justice and ...

Two collection bins for kitchen scraps have been installed at the Public Works garage at 105 Beachwood Avenue.

The Town of Cary recently completed a one-year food waste pilot program, which involved residents dropping off food waste at the location pictured left. Credit: Town of Cary Cary’s Good Hope Farm ...

The Town of Bethlehem in Albany County is showing off its new food scraps composting system. With the Feura Bush Road facility, Bethlehem is kicking its recycling program up a notch. Democratic Town ...

HOUSTON — Houston City Council is moving forward with an effort to improve food waste composting as the city grapples with limited landfill space. The council approved an item to give Solid Waste ...

When you consider the mountain of wrapping paper, plastic forks and goody bag detritus that remain after a child’s birthday, throwing a greener party may seem as feasible as offering unicorn rides.

At the urging of the plastics industry, the USDA is considering allowing materials such as bioplastic cups, coffee pods and compostable plastic bags into the organic compost waste stream. Farmers and ...