At the Tom Eastler Memorial Compost Site. Left to right is Mark King, with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection; Tom Eastler’s wife, Sue …
Climate Action Collaborative: How do your actions stack up?
There are a variety of backyard or indoor composting options available to you at your home to reduce your personal food waste. You can also contact …
Maine becomes the first state to ban foam containers — here’s what that means for restaurants
Some compostable containers require industrial composting that uses higher temperatures to break the material down, instead of biodegrading in an …
Salem offering composting bins
Composting essentially turns organic waste into homemade fertilizer. Composting grass clippings, vegetable scraps, coffee grounds and more has …
Oak Harbor workshop teaches fine points of composting
Composting is a form of recycling that can happen in your own backyard. Sign up for the Compost Workshop on Wednesday, May 8 and discover the …
Reduce, Reuse and Redistribute Wasted Food in Ulster
Petit also works as a leader of the New Paltz Recycling Center (NPRC), which receives a bulk of the waste for composting for the town and village.
New pilot program hopes to cut back on food waste in Colorado restaurants
Lee said his restaurant uses 100 pounds of bones and vegetables every day to make its soups. It’ll now be composted, whereas before, it was going …
Free composting, green cleaning classes promote sustainable living
VANCOUVER — Clark County’s Master Composter Recycler program is offering a series of free composting and green cleaning workshops this spring …
Are biodegradable bags better than plastic? It’s complicated.
As the banana peels and straw morphed into crumbly compost, the “compostable” bags and “biodegradable” cups hung around, full intact. They would …
City revives school composting program after students and teachers call for funding restoration
After suspending campus composting without explanation last June, the city restored funding last month for the organics recycling component of the …