A 17-year-old York Suburban student wants to build community, reduce waste in landfills, and enrich the soil through a new community compost bin project. For Alexia Purkanto, it began with a compost ...

Food waste amounts to 92 billion pounds annually, according to the nonprofit group Feeding America. Though food doesn’t last forever, throwing scraps in the trash doesn’t have to be your only option.

After many starts and stops, curbside composting has expanded citywide. Now, separating organic waste from landfill trash is mandatory in every borough. And it’s working — the city is capturing 5 ...

Residents of New Bedford and Dartmouth can purchase discounted compost bins during Compost Bin Day, according to a community announcement. The event will be held from noon to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The City of St. Augustine is opening applications for its Residential Composting Program on Monday, July 14, offering free backyard compost bins to residents of single-family ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City Department of Sanitation recently announced that it will be releasing a smaller-sized compost bin for purchase following another record-breaking week of compost ...

Composting at home is a fantastic way to reduce your impact on the planet, and with the best compost bins, you can start turning your food scraps into compost and reduce your waste. Whether you have a ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Let’s be real, composting doesn’t usually scream “cutting-edge.” But Arlington County is flipping the script and turning your banana peels and lunch leftovers into a tech-savvy, ...

April Wilkerson builds DIY compost bins with these 3-bin plans, helping you manage your composting at home. Drug runners engage Navy vessel in Caribbean Jessica Alba (44 years old) shows off her abs ...

The promise is simple. A small backyard setup is supposed to transform all sorts of kitchen waste into a nutrient-dense compost, a material so prized by gardeners that they gave it the nickname “black ...