Keeping food waste out of landfills provides climate and other environmental benefits, and Vermont requires residents to ...

Most organic household waste ends up in landfills, where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

Turn summer scraps into soil, not trash. Learn how to start a simple backyard compost pile, what to put in, and how to keep it smelling fresh.

Around 6.5 million tons of [mostly] plastic-wrapped dog poop winds up in landfills in the United States every year. As most cities see it, that’s the only safe option. Unlike wildlife scat, which ...

Composting — a term used and promoted by the environmentally minded, but not something all of us are all-knowing about. If you’re a New York City resident, however, you should probably begin getting ...

There is nothing glamorous about picking up dog poop. But, as dog owners, we do it anyway, because our four-legged friends can't do it themselves — and put simply: it's the right thing to do. In ...

Clay County has cleared the first hurdle to divert food waste from the landfill: funding for a composting program. Clay ...

A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greg Pryor of the composting company Recology holds a handful of processed compost at the integrated waste management's compost ...

It's midsummer here at Homeacres, and I want to show you four simple ways I make compost — for potting, for mulching, and for feeding a thriving no dig garden. These methods include: A wormery for ...