Free compost Saturday, bin and barrel sale too

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

32 NJ Towns Get Grants to Make Innovative Sustainability Projects a Reality

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 …

Denver Fire Stations Participate in Zero Waste Initiative

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 …

City compost pile gains in popularity

“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 …

City compost pile gains in popularity

“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