"I know these are meant for commercial composting facilities, but I wanted to see how it would compost in my little home ...

Steve Winter: State $$ to fund bags and education. The city is $3 million closer to rolling out a curbside composting system, now that the Board of Alders has approved a state grant funding outreach ...

When Christine Datz-Romero and her husband started the Lower East Side Ecology Center in 1987, where New Yorkers could drop off paper, metal, glass and plastic for recycling, they beat New York’s ...

Last October, Portlanders made a environmental and controversial change in the way they handle their garbage by (begrudgingly) welcoming compost into their curbside pick-up program. Six months later, ...

A curbside composting program launched in San Francisco 30 years ago that is now adopted worldwide, has turned food waste ...

Dearborn Heights is withholding a $250,000 payment and demanding a $13,000 deduction from Priority Waste after compost, ...

Curbside collection of yard waste, food scraps and food-soiled paper will begin this Sunday in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island as part of an expansion of a successful program that started in ...

If you live in Brooklyn, there’ll be an extra step to your garbage gathering routine beginning in October. Along with your regular trash and recycling, you’ll need to leave out your food and yard ...