National awareness days come thick and fast and many of them slip by without us noticing – but this entire week (6-12 May) is dedicated to celebrating one thing in particular: compost. International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), now in its 24th year, is a comprehensive educational initiative by the …

The free compost will be available for one day only at the old county landfill site in Verona, next to Badger Prairie Health Care Center, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Each visitor … The annual Madison compost bin and rain barrel sale will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Alliant Energy

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Four $20,000 grants, eight $10,000 grants and 20 $2,000 grants were distributed to fund a variety of projects including turtle habitat protection, environmental resource inventories, an electric vehicle charging station, single use plastic reduction campaigns, pond restoration, composting and food waste …

In an effort to ramp up the Denver Composts program, firefighters from 20 fire stations in the city of Denver are teaching local residents about the benefits of composting. Several of these fire stations have seen their recycling rates increase as much as 8 to 80 percent since they’ve implemented the …

“They can put it in the garbage container, they can compost it themselves or they can take it to the city compost pile,” he said. “We’ve got a good pile …

“They can put it in the garbage container, they can compost it themselves or they can take it to the city compost pile,” he said. “We’ve got a good pile started there now.” Cotton said crews cleared the compost area after the last snow of spring and people have been hauling out leaves, grass clippings

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Attendees learn how to create a simple, working compost pile with no turning of the pile so positive results are easily achieved, at the the “Composting …

Sanger High School students Daysia Torres; Keanu Lugo; and Mario Moctezuma created a composting machine. Torres said they were inspired to do …

Bokashi has been one of my favourite finds to compost more than just my organics. Now you can turn just about all of your kitchen waste into good food for yo…