Sale of peat-based compost for use on private gardens and allotments to be outlawed within 18 months Sales of peat for use on private gardens and allotments will be banned in England from 2024, the ...

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 ...

A national environmental group is focusing attention on a San Francisco program that transforms human waste into backyard compost, calling the program little more than a scheme to sling toxic toilet ...

As temperatures cool and leaves begin to fall, now might be an opportune time to tend to yards and gardens. But before getting started, it is important to know the best products to use to get the ...

Compost gives poor soil a fresh start. Loose, crumbly, and rich in nutrients, compost is nature’s free crop insurance. Roots grow well in enriched soil, pests tend to avoid the planting sites and, in ...

Growing up, Amanda Russcol’s parents taught her the importance of a then-unconventional practice: They would save every unused food scrap, from apple cores to eggshells to potato peels, and toss them ...

On average, Americans waste 25 percent of the food they prepare. They throw away 44 percent of their yard trimmings and 90 percent of their wood waste. But Chesterfield Farms, LLC is working to put a ...

MIDDLETOWN — The truck’s load spills out in a soupy mess. Clam shells and corn husks. Lobster shells and lemon rinds. Vegetable peelings float in murky streams that flow around mounds of spent barley ...

Skokie has introduced a drop-off composting program that helps the environment by avoiding the buildup of a greenhouse gas called methane in landfills, and it could be a trial balloon for village-wide ...

The city has teamed up with composting service Queen City Commons to put drop-off bins for food scraps in four neighborhoods.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last month, at a vast composting yard owned by a Northern California waste and ...