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 ...

Composting is a great way to recycle while adding more activity to your day. The good news is you don’t need a yard to do it. Composting bins are available, and as long as you know what you can and ...

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 ...

In compost science, brown materials are carbon-rich, whereas green materials are nitrogen-rich. You need both, but the ratios of each matter for compost health.

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 ...

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 ...

This salty kitchen scrap is a great addition to your compost, boosting nutrients, reducing waste, and improving soil health ...

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

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