The Shafter-Wasco Recycling & Sanitary Landfill is home to a new composting system that will process 100,000 tons of organic material each year with the help of 32 composting bunkers. Other supporting ...

Mayor Adams announced Thursday that the city has expanded its ability to convert food and yard waste into compost by as much as 400% — a key step before his administration expands curbside compost ...

City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation’s 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New ...

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) Green Campus Initiative student group has instituted a new composting project to collect and compost food and organic waste on the Syracuse ...

All are welcome to the grand opening of Northern Recycling’s Covered Aerated Static Pile Composting and Construction, Demolition and Inert sorting facility on Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 9 to 10 a.m., ...

Fall is a good time of the year to build your compost pile, as I mentioned in this column two weeks ago. Here is how to go about creating “black gold” for your garden next spring. First of all, the ...

If you have leaves accumulating on your lawn and in the garden, instead of raking them up into piles and putting them in bags to set on the curb, may we suggest composting them. Leaves are full of ...

Organic waste creates nasty stuff when it lands at the dump. “When organics, whether it be yard waste or food waste, ends up in the landfill, it’s covered and so it doesn’t get the oxygen it needs to ...