The shell of an egg. The peel of an orange. The leftovers that sit in the fridge too long. These all contribute to food waste, which Americans generate 92 billion pounds of each year, according to ...

Last week, David White closed the books on a grant-funded composting initiative, ending a two-year program based in the Ojai Valley which served schools and community gardens in several local cities.

On April 27, the City Council declared May 3-9 to be Compost Awareness Week in Evanston, aligned with International Compost ...

The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) and the city of Columbus have announced the opening of the region’s only ...

This may be one of those cases where bigger isn’t necessarily better, at least when it comes to turning waste into compost. The county’s contract with Hawaiian Earth Recycling, inked just days before ...

It takes two to three weeks for a properly maintained 2-foot pile of leaves to turn into a bucket full of black, crumbly, sweet-smelling compost. Connie Gannon Fresno Bee archive Many gardeners are ...

WAUNAKEE, Wis. – Jeff Endres can think of lots of reasons for composting manure. He farms with his brothers, Steve and Randy Endres, in the Yahara Watershed surrounding Madison, Wisconsin. The three ...

What would you do if a 40-ton sperm whale carcass washed up on your shoreline? You might call Mark Hutchinson, a member of the Maine Compost Team, a state interagency task force that has proved an ...