U.S. landfill disposal of yard trimmings fell from 25 million tons in 1990 to about 10.5 million tons in 2018, underscoring ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 25, 2025 at ...

A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

A Rhode Island school composting program is expanding statewide with $750,000 in new funding. The initiative aims to reduce food waste, which releases methane gas in landfills. Started in 2021, the ...

Middle Tennessee's rapid growth is exacerbating its trash problem, with the current landfill nearing capacity. Composting offers a viable solution by diverting organic waste from landfills and ...

Bristol and Barrington, Rhode Island, are launching the state's first municipal curbside composting programs. The two-year pilot program, starting Sept. 18, aims to reduce landfill waste and lower ...

Renewable Redwings started its composting program about 10 years ago. The club's composting program has composted 10,800 pounds of food waste, as of 2024. This month, students are participating in the ...

Food scraps are being wasted and filling up our landfills when they could be going to building soil and growing our food. Plants thrive on compost, and we have the technology to make composting easy ...

Fall is a perfect time to consider composting. As our days get cooler and shorter, deciduous trees like oaks, maples, and sweetgums will begin to shed their leaves. The swamp chestnut oak in my front ...