Believe it or not, most venues are just starting to include recycling into their services, which means they’re not up to date on composting. Most of the …
Athens Services Hosts Free Compost Giveaway In Redondo Beach
REDONDO BEACH, CA – Athens Services will be giving out free compost to Redondo Beach residents on Saturday, April 13 from 8 a.m. to noon at …
Before Tom’s of Maine could go zero waste, it had to figure out how to compost toothpaste
Now, the company composts it instead, delivering the extra product to a nearby large-scale commercial composting facility called MB Bark. Working …
Starbucks Tests Compostable Cup in Several Major Cities
Starbucks just announced it is testing a compostable cup in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Vancouver and London. The new cup looks like …
Tour of an off-grid house in Australia
The also have solar-heated water for showers, a biogas digester that turns waste food into combustible gas, and a composting toilet. They also have a …
Horticulturists teaching ‘Composting 101′ this Thursday
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 30 percent of what Americans throw away is food and yard waste. Composting provides an easy …
Waste not, want notDeerfield plans to start transfer station composting
DEERFIELD – The town’s Selectboard has given its blessing to taking up municipal composting. Kevin Scarborough, the superintendent of public …
Thai Supermarket Experiments With Banana Leaves to Replace Plastic Packaging
For one, leaves are organic matter and will easily compost, unlike their plastic counterparts, which will take anything between 50 and 200 years to fully …
War on waste debate tackles fruit and vegetable wrapping benefits over more food waste
Dr Denham said while home composting of food waste was an option for some people, it would still produce carbon dioxide and methane, but this was …
Planet is in serious trouble, say Greens
These composting units should be managed by the local residents … Ecosan, Portable Compost Toilets and other methods of composting human …