As the growing season draws to a close and your garden beds are filled with dead plants, consider adding them to your compost ...

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Montgomery County Environmental Services offers reminders of how to reduce holiday waste and recycle right during the busiest time of year.

Making compost can be a fun way to protect the environment. But can animal waste be included? We have the answer for various popular pets.

A number of cities around the world now sort their municipal trash, diverting organic matter into giant anaerobic composters that turn it into nutrient-rich soil. Such systems can be very expensive, ...

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 ...

Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over half of all ...

Andersen has invented a device that tracks the decomposition of compost made of human feces, a function that he says could help improve environmental health all over the world. In earthquake-ravaged ...