You probably expect this to be another feel-good story about sustainability and backyard bins. It's not. Let's be real, ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

Electric composters are a recent innovation with a promising future. Now you can compost at home in small spaces with no ...

Quick reminder: The law called SB 1383 aims to keep food waste out of landfills, where it decomposes and emits the planet-heating greenhouse gas methane. Landfills are California’s third largest ...

The city of Durham is encouraging people to compost pumpkins after Halloween. Pumpkins and other food waste that end up in landfills break down and emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas that ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...

Twenty miles south of Boise, crews at the city compost farm are bracing for the busy season. “Grass season,” as compost program director Lisa Knapp calls it, means bag after bag of lawn clippings and ...

Even biodegradable items can’t turn into beneficial compost when they’re packed close together and buried. There’s a better solution. Sipa USA file photo Climate change is one of the biggest ...