Avoid composting diseased plants to prevent spreading harmful pathogens back into your garden. Trash invasive plants, weeds ...

In compost science, brown materials are carbon-rich, whereas green materials are nitrogen-rich. You need both, but the ratios ...

MIAMI — Two recent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency revealed a startling statistic: more than one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, and most of it ends up ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. Hot composting is the process ...

Maybe it will take carrots to get towns to cooperate. We’ll need lots of carrots, big carrots, to move communities to embrace the benefits of regionalization. One such carrot was dangled in the ...

While fruit peels and coffee grounds are commonly understood to be good additions to compost, it might surprise you that this ...

Nearly half of all waste is organic and compostable. When unmanaged, this waste releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) and potent air pollutant, that contaminates ecosystems and causes one ...

This salty kitchen scrap is a great addition to your compost, boosting nutrients, reducing waste, and improving soil health ...

There are many natural products you may mindlessly toss in the garbage that could actually feed your compost pile and reduce ...

Chris Cano stands in front of Infinity Hall where the office for Gainesville Compost is located. Cano said the building has curated and encouraged the vision of innovation that his business strives ...