Composting is a great way to keep your food scraps from ending up in a landfill while delivering nutrient-rich soil in return. Sounds great, but if you’ve ever tried it, you know it can be confusing ...

In the face of Skokie’s average temperature having already risen 1.13 degree F in the past four decades, according to a study, the Skokie Village Board voted unanimously on Monday, Nov. 21 to adopt a ...

Ginny Klocko is one of a dozen area residents who spend a good deal of their free time digging through kitchen scraps and yard waste. They love it. They are a hearty corps of master gardeners, ...

Lawn trimmings, eggshells, old vegetables and shredded newspaper. Put it all together, and what do you get? Some call it garbage. Others call it black gold, the best fertilizer there is for lawns and ...

While many of Florida’s counties have thrown money and technology at their garbage crises, one of the state’s poorest, most rural counties has picked a cheap, age-old solution. Sumter County has ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BATH — It was Taco Tuesday at Bath Middle School, and what hadn’t been ...

Months ago, the Columbus Gifted Academy cafeteria was tossing about 18 bags of garbage into the Dumpster daily. Now, the school throws out, at most, a couple of trash bags thanks to efforts led by its ...

Q: I just bought a house with a kitchen garbage-disposal unit, and have been wondering about something. I don't know who is the right person to ask, but your composting answer ("Compost program comes ...

MOHALI: Taking a step ahead of their two counterparts, the Mohali MC has initiated the functioning of garbage composting sites by constructing 10 composting pits at each garbage dumping site in Mohali ...

With the construction of a massive new garbage incinerator in Miami-Dade County now in serious doubt, environmentalists and climate activists hope it will open the door for a waste disposal method ...