The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

As Maine towns are seeing their waste disposal costs continue to climb, some towns and other groups are looking for ways to reduce the tonnage they truck to landfills. Maine towns pay per ton of trash ...

Previous Mayor Eric Adams undermined his landmark “trash revolution” last year when he halted fines on buildings that didn’t separate compost from the rest of their trash, according to a report ...

Manitowoc County compost sites will begin new operating hours on April 1. The Recycling Center Main Office will also adjust its hours starting April 4 for compost sales and electronics recycling.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The city of Denver is granting ten restaurants up to $3,600 to pay for one year’s worth of compost hauling ahead of a new rule that will require every ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Recent warm weather has led some Ann Arborites to get started on spring yard work, filling up yard waste bags and compost bins and piling up vegetation clippings. Some being wishful ...

As a young boy, I had to contend with my grandfather’s compost heap. It was a veritable Vesuvius of foul-smelling, putrescible plant waste, a metre high and hidden behind a privet hedge. We had placed ...

Fresno County officials say they were “shocked” to learn that compost made from human remains was being spread on public land along the San Joaquin River in Central California. The revelation has ...

Months after the city voted to shutter Beaten Path Compost, Jackson DeWitt still sees yellow compost buckets on doorsteps around Gainesville. After leaving his job as an electrician and joining the ...

Failure to compost comes with a fine in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York City. On his first day in office, Mamdani’s administration quietly began fining New Yorkers for not separating their organic ...

SAYS THAT THEY WILL TAKE THESE CONCERNS ON THE ROAD. IN A SERIES OF TOWN HALLS, A NEW NONPROFIT IS LOOKING TO GET MORE PEOPLE COMPOSTING IN OMAHA. HILLSIDE FUND SAYS YOU’LL SOON HAVE A YEAR ROUND ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says up to 40% of food ends up in the landfill every year. One Tri-State group is working to make composting more accessible to ...