Incorporating composting into your gardening routine is a great way to reduce waste and add nutrients and organic matter to your yard. It is basically creating free fertilizer while sending much less ...

Compost is a fantastic way to give your plants a nutritional boost. And although maintaining a batch is second nature to some gardeners during the growing season, most take a break in winter. But ...

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 ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

Composting saves money when done right, but poor composting turns free soil food into useless clutter. Every spring, many ...

If you’ve ever stood over your compost pile wondering why it looks more like a sad heap of yard waste than the rich, earthy black gold you were promised, you’re not alone. Composting is nature’s ...

Bristol and Barrington, Rhode Island, are launching the state's first municipal curbside composting programs. The two-year pilot program, starting Sept. 18, aims to reduce landfill waste and lower ...

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...

Dear Eartha, I collect my food scraps at home but the restaurant I work for doesn’t. I’d like to help them start composting food waste. What should I do? High five for composting your food scraps. You ...

In this Waste360 Q&A, Chris Seney, director of Organics Operations, Republic Services, reveals other expansion plan details.

PROVIDENCE – Curious about composting but you don’t want to do it in your backyard? If you live in Bristol or Barrington, you’ll soon have the chance to put your food scraps out for pickup as part of ...