Aside from staking up space, when food scraps are end up in landfill and decompose without access to oxygen they release methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Most people walk past their lawn trimmings, fallen leaves, and garden debris without a second thought. That pile of waste by ...

Composters are a great way to shrink your ecological footprint and a cost-effective solution for feeding your garden (Did you know that one third of the world’s fertilizer passes through the Strait of ...

Scientists at the University of York have found a way to remove antibiotic resistant genes from industrial compost, which could prevent them entering the food chain. While antibiotic resistance genes ...

I explain green and brown ingredients, using coffee and other wastes including roots of perennial weeds and blighted leaves. What size pieces to add, what temperatures you need and may expect. How ...

Few know this, but I have 3,000 employees working for me at home. They don’t punch a clock, but they toil day and night. We never speak, but we meet for a few moments every few days. I supply them ...

Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what happens to waste once it’s been thrown out or flushed away. But Mark King and the other members of the Maine Compost Team are not like most ...

With the Super Bowl around the corner, Phoenix Public Works is preparing for the crowds with new composting technology. From the hiring of the city’s first innovation officer to the Phoenix Fire ...

WEST HAVEN >> A team of students from the Engineering and Science University Magnet School might trade a pile of dirt for $100,000 later this month after taking first place in their age division in a ...