Keep Compost Local outlines how local governments can partner with community composters to advance composting goals.

The United States has a festering food waste problem going largely unnoticed. In 2021, according to the nonprofit ReFED, 91 million tons of food – half still edible – were thrown away. Only 2% was ...

While single-use bags labeled as compostable are an alternative for plastic bags, they are not to be disposed of in the green bins used to collect compostable waste, including food scraps and yard ...

While visiting my daughter in Brooklyn over the holidays I noticed that they have curbside recycling for kitchen scraps. They ...

For most of the state, banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's ...

It’s that time of the week when your food waste pail is full, and you’re ready to walk your scraps out to the green-waste bin. (You are following your community’s rules about composting food scraps, ...

A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

GREEN BAY − In just under two years, Cory Groshek has grown his Green Bay compost company from a small startup with a handful of clients to a full-fledged business helping residential and commercial ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diegans are recycling more than twice as much organic waste under a comprehensive new city program that has delivered more than 200,000 green waste containers and compost ...

I first heard about Deano’s compost business from his mom. She was at the Keauhou Farmers Market handing out cards for her son’s new business. I took a card and started ordering soil from Deano for my ...