As the growing season draws to a close and your garden beds are filled with dead plants, consider adding them to your compost ...

According to the USDA, the average American throws away about 300 pounds of food waste a year. Compost Expert Jim Mullen said ...

Montgomery County Environmental Services offers reminders of how to reduce holiday waste and recycle right during the busiest time of year.

A number of cities around the world now sort their municipal trash, diverting organic matter into giant anaerobic composters that turn it into nutrient-rich soil. Such systems can be very expensive, ...

The Composting Consortium says EPR has been positioned as a tailwind for recycling, but compostable packaging, which helps to divert food scraps and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in landfills, is ...

BERWYN, Ill. (CBS) – While it may look like garbage, composting is the process of recycling organic materials to fight food waste. If everyone in the U.S. composted, it would be like removing almost 8 ...

Andersen has invented a device that tracks the decomposition of compost made of human feces, a function that he says could help improve environmental health all over the world. In earthquake-ravaged ...