Smith said if successful, the composting trade could expand. Berkowitz said the program does not rely on city tax dollars. Big Lake's Susitna Organics has the contract to collect and compost the ...

Have you ever composted? Watch this video to learn how to create a compost jar at home to discover the length of time it takes for various materials to decompose. What is composting? Composting is ...

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Bob Mattsey has allowed the city of Greenfield to use his property to dump leaves collected from throughout the city. Mattsey plans to experiment with a variety of techniques to turn the piles of ...

The Holland, Inc., known throughout the Pacific Northwest for its commitment to sustainable practices, today announced that it has implemented a composting pilot program at its Salmon Creek ...

Running scraps through the food processor speeds up the composting process. (Joe Yonan - The Washington Post) Running scraps through the food processor speeds up the composting process. (Joe Yonan - ...

A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch has uncovered a disarmingly simple and benign way to remove carbon dioxide from the air, holding the potential to turn the vast ...

ASPEN – Banana peel? Toss it in the trash. Or, maybe not. A hoped-for pilot program in Aspen could target the one substantial component of the community’s garbage that isn’t already the focus of local ...

Give Grand Island the sniff test over the next eight weeks. The city will be conducting two separate stink abatement experiments at the wastewater treatment plant — one this month and one in March — ...

KENNETT SQUARE, PA - As concerns increase about the environmental impacts of harvesting peat and the rising costs of peatmoss used as a growing substrate, researchers are seeking feasible alternatives ...

Residents in a Maryland Heights subdivision are dropping off their food scraps near the street for composting in the first Missouri program to collect food waste at the curb. In June, composting ...