The shell of an egg. The peel of an orange. The leftovers that sit in the fridge too long. These all contribute to food waste, which Americans generate 92 billion pounds of each year, according to ...

Where there’s a will, there’s not always a way. Ben Stanger has composted his whole life, starting with a backyard bin when he was a child. But when he wanted to expand his composting efforts and ...

On April 27, the City Council declared May 3-9 to be Compost Awareness Week in Evanston, aligned with International Compost ...

Roughly one quarter of all landfill waste in the US is food. If you add in things such as yard trimmings, newspapers and wood products, more than half of all waste is made up of organic material. In a ...

Avon’s commercial composting pilot program, which kicked off in November, is already diverting a significant amount of waste from the landfill. The 2018 Northwest Colorado Waste Diversion study showed ...

Compost can make soil healthier, more fertile and more absorbent. When scaled city- or state-wide, it can extend the life of landfills, create jobs, support local agriculture by keeping those ...