Living in an apartment doesn't mean you have to give up on composting. It's one thing to want to reduce your environmental ...

Composting is the process of turning organic waste, such as kitchen scraps and yard debris, into nutrient-rich fertilizer. This transformation is facilitated by microorganisms, including bacteria and ...

Food scraps make up 25 billion pounds of trash per year in this country—captured energy that could go back into greening the planet. A wilted broccoli stalk, a grapefruit peel, a carrot top. That’s ...

Even in the seemingly simple world of leaves and grass clippings there is talk of high-tech and low-tech. The high-tech method for dealing with the ban on dumping yard waste in landfills, which goes ...

Autumn brings cold weather, fallen leaves, and yard work. While raking up leaves consider using them for next year’s vegetables. Is leaf compost good for vegetable gardens? It’s some of the most ...

Lisa Tornatore, assistant director of Sustainability@BU, wrote in an email that the CORe facility, which accepts much of BU’s compost, “typically sorts out utensils and sends them to [a] ...

What is composting? Composting is an aerobic recycling process where microorganisms break down organic material in a controlled environment to produce a stable product called humus. There are many ...