The Big Compost Experiment aimed to learn whether compostable plastics would degrade in home composters. This briefing sets out the main findings and considers what this means for public policy. Home ...

Through our From Waste to Action campaign, we work directly with food businesses to reduce waste, stay compliant, and save ...

Dosage assays - The effect of three compost tea concentrations on leaf area, chlorophyll content and dry tomato seedling weight are shown in Table 3. Significantly higher values of dry weight, ...

Even if you've been nurturing a compost pile or tumbler for years, you might not realize what kind of composting you're doing. Are you hot or cold composting? Lots of composting resources focus on the ...

Compost has been dubbed "garden gold." But it is important to do your composting correctly. While it is generally okay to take a laid-back approach to composting, there are a few caveats to keep ...

Turning compost piles provides more air to beneficial microbes, helping to speed up the composting process and creating enough heat to kill weed seeds, pests, and pathogens. Aim to turn a hot ...

Cape Breton Regional Municipality is planning to outsource the handling of recycling products and composting materials, but an official says residents will still be putting out blue bags and green ...

On Strawberry Hill, far removed from City of Kamloops residential streets, piles of local food and yard waste are moved, mixed, monitored and screened to create rich compost material for farming ...

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality is planning to close its compost facility at the Sydney Port Access Road and sell its Sydport Industrial Park-based recycling site. John Phalen, the ...

There’s a new assistant in sustainability in the South Bay. It helps San Diego compost more, including from big businesses that create a lot of food waste. Thor is a machine that helps with ...