If you want to help take care of the planet, there are many things you can do on an individual level to be more sustainable. You can use eco-friendly products like Swedish dishcloths, reusable bags ...

Composting at home is one of the easiest and most impactful ways to reduce ... a list of haulers that offer food waste hauling services. Composting involves two basic categories of materials: green ...

Starting a compost pile can be as simple as piling yard waste up in a free-standing pile. But to save space in smaller landscapes, hasten decomposition and keep the yard looking neat, create a ...

My office is just down the road from the Washington State University composting facility. It processes more than 10,000 pounds of organic waste every month. That’s a lot of compost! I talked about ...

Here’s a riddle: What will weed, feed and water your garden, and take care of your garbage? “Ideal teenager” is not the answer. It’s compost. Compost is hard to define. In some sense, the apple core I ...

Illustration by Kenneth Harrison / The Times-Picayune If you compost, you may never need to buy organic matter for soil conditioning or mulch to cover the surface. I am an avid composter. Not one ...

Editor's note: This story has been modified to clarify the list of appropriate items for home composting. Starting this month, tons of organic waste — from half-eaten school lunches at Bloomington ...

This is my first VLog whereby I capture my thoughts of the day whilst I'm working on our small acreage doing daily tasks to ...