Following an inspection of two plants — the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) plant and the plant at Chikkanagamangala, the …
Reckless abandonment in the garden
We’ve been aimlessly composting for a year now, by which I mean, I made a compost bin and we stick all the stuff that seems like it should compost …
Save-On-Foods commits to reducing food waste
“We have been composting perishable waste where possible for a number of years, but we knew we could do better,” said Darrell Jones, President of …
Donate excess food, says Health Ministry
What should restaurants do with their extra food? The Union Health Ministry suggests “donating excess food and turning wet waste into compost” as …
Chennai Corporation to stop collecting waste from hotels, restaurants
In the meantime, they can send waste to the micro composting centres located at ward levels and smaller composting facilities that have been set up in …
Bulgaria’s Troyan signs deal with local tie-up for building composting installation
SOFIA (Bulgaria), June 10 (SeeNews) – The Bulgarian city of Troyan has signed a 3.9 million levs ($2.3 million/2.0 million euro) contract with a local …
Nonprofit to Turn Tourist Trash into Nature’s Treasure: Compost
Is a compost bucket on your packing list for summer beach trips? If not, a nonprofit in Ocean City, Maryland has you covered with plans for a citywide …
Some lessons from other cities that did away with bins
In Corporation in Thiruvananthapuram would offer some special privileges to neighbourhoods that offered them land to set up a composting facility.
The Karthikeyapuram experience of going binless
The Corporation has built a composting pit in the neighbourhood park, in an attempt to reduce waste from going to the dumping grounds in Perungudi …
This Rabbi Would Prefer That You Compost His Body, Not Bury It
In May, Washington became the first state to allow body composting as an alternative to burial, cremation and whole-body donation for scientific or …