Why You Should Never Compost a Diseased Plant. According to Amy Enfield, Ph.D., Senior Horticulturist at ScottsMiracle-Gro, adding a diseased plant to your compost pile introduces ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. Cold composting is the process by ...

MIAMI — Two recent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency revealed a startling statistic: more than one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, and most of it ends up ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. Hot composting is the process ...

Perhaps the most important thing you can do for your garden is feed it with nutrient-rich compost. This mix of decaying vegetable matter, grass clippings, and leaves may not be glamorous, but it ...

Maybe it will take carrots to get towns to cooperate. We’ll need lots of carrots, big carrots, to move communities to embrace the benefits of regionalization. One such carrot was dangled in the ...

Chris Cano stands in front of Infinity Hall where the office for Gainesville Compost is located. Cano said the building has curated and encouraged the vision of innovation that his business strives ...

The city of Durango is ahead of the curve when it comes to recycling. This fall, councilors will decide how seriously the ...

While fruit peels and coffee grounds are commonly understood to be good additions to compost, it might surprise you that this ...

You grab a compostable coffee cup from the office kitchen, feel quietly good about it, and toss it into your backyard compost bin on the way home. It’s a familiar routine. The word “compostable” is ...