Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 17-year-old York Suburban student wants to build community, reduce waste in landfills, and enrich the soil through a new ...

Community composting is growing across the country but problems arise as cities lag behind in regulations and zoning laws. Food waste takes up a lot of landfill space. Turning that garbage into ...

“Our best hope for a better future lies in communities coming together to care for the land we inhabit. Losing city-funded community composting programs will make that much harder.” A rally to save ...

Colerain Township recently upgraded its compost collecting station with wooden fencing to protect the waste haulers from the wind. It's been almost a year since Colerain Township implemented a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A local urban garden center is launching a new program to help people compost. Inside Gardener’s Outpost, you can find plants, flowers, and garden supplies. Now, you can also find ...

Organizations, including Mill, the food-recycling system, donated $350,000 in emergency 'stop-gap' funding to help maintain operations while working to assemble a fund to support these community ...

A community composting project is returning to Saratoga Springs. Up to 150 households are welcome to share in the ...

Five years ago, Philadelphia started a new program that would give residents the chance to sort, shift and transform organic waste into compost. Based on similar initiatives in cities like Washington, ...

Jennifer Bisram is an award-winning reporter and anchor who joined CBS News New York in 2022. She covers aging and caregiving, as well as crime and community stories. NEW YORK -- New York City could ...

Waste-Free Dayton has teamed up with 2nd Street Market to offer a free, community compost station along the back of the market near Webster Street. About a year ago, Waste-Free Dayton sent out a ...

Clark County’s community-based composting program collected a record-breaking 186,000 pounds of food waste in 2025.

WasteNot Compost and Champaign County Environmental Stewards have partnered to bring a compost drop-off program to Urbana at ...