Our host Lauren Singer is helping us learn how to reduce the amount of waste our homes send to landfills with these tricks for recycling and composting. The post Do your part for the environment ...

Recycling isn’t as simple as throwing things into a blue bin and hoping for the best. It’s a little, day-to-day action that ...

Senate Bill 1383 is the law requiring communities to compost food waste to help reduce emissions from landfills, forcing San Diego residents to deal with the yuck factor of recycling rotten food.

But if you live in Rhode Island, shredded paper isn’t accepted for mixed-recycling pickup; residents can compost their shreds, throw them in the trash, or drop off shredded paper at a disposal ...

Work 2–3 inches of compost into garden beds before planting to boost soil structure, moisture retention, and nutrient ...

This makes a huge amount of compost, so it's more expensive than others out there, but it's also made of recycled plastic to ...

When you toss a soda can, a banana peel or a pizza box in your residential recycling or compost bins, where does it actually go? It could end up in a foundry in Oregon, or a local farm, or, if ...

You compost 3,000 tons, what do you get? Less trash – and a coming crackdown on green-waste scofflaws With the rollout of the city’s new program nearly complete, more than 200,000 green bins ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diegans are recycling more than twice as much organic waste under a comprehensive new city program that has delivered more than 200,000 green waste containers and compost kitchen ...