This time last year, my slow crawl toward living more sustainably led me to start composting at home. But perhaps to the chagrin of my farming grandparents, I had no plans to do it myself. Instead, I ...

A residential Renewal Composting bucket to collect food scraps, alongside a bag of finished compost sold by the company. Credit: Renewal Composting / Courtesy Helping to save the planet is all well ...

My first real introduction to composting was when my sister, Vanessa, buried some banana peels in our backyard as part of a science fair project in elementary school. We grew up with a compost pile in ...

Bokashi uses fermentation to break down food waste into beneficial pre-compost. The process takes place inside an airtight container, making it odor- and pest-free. Unlike traditional composting, you ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that the key to healthy plants is healthy soil, and the best way to improve soil is by incorporating compost, which can take up to a year to make. Compost improves the drainage of heavy ...

EDWARDSVILLE — If it grows, it goes. When in doubt, leave it out! That's the breakdown for New Earth Farm, a composting business in North St. Louis. Stacey and John Cline, who run New Earth Farm, hope ...

A citywide pilot program to collect food scraps from District residents has run into a completely unexpected problem: bucket theft. Big-time bucket theft. Each of the 9,000 households participating in ...

There was a unforeseen hole in the District’s compost pilot program that launched in fall of 2023. The white compost buckets issued to the 9,000 households participating in the project were routinely ...

D.C.’s composting program is shifting to bright orange buckets that resemble a miniaturized version of the trash cans that are outside houses. Nobody knows exactly why, but thousands of composting ...