A mound of compost with a hoe sticking out and a gardener's boots in the background - Annick Vanderschelden Photography/Getty Images So you've got your compost ready for the next gardening season.

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...

Dear Eartha, I know composting is good for our environment. But outside of making soil healthier for plants, what’s the real deal with composting? How does it actually benefit the community?

Editor’s note: This is one in a continuing series of educational columns about fostering environmental stewardship and leadership coordinated by ACES – The Alliance of Climate and Environmental ...

After a couple of weeks it can be buried in soil or added to the compost heap, where it breaks down quickly. Wormeries are handy too, especially in small gardens. They use compost worms, usually tiger ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY—The Michigan Recycling Coalition and the Michigan Organics Council are inviting residents to learn about composting during The Great Michigan Compost Tour, which begins Monday.

The town has received a $300,000 grant to install a new composting facility at the Kent transfer station where food scraps will be collected as part of a larger effort by the state to divert organic ...

I’ve seen no indication of any large-scale residential composting programs coming in the near future in Philadelphia. But composting is something an individual can do to reduce their carbon impact.

As fall leaves begin to blanket Lowcountry yards, local stormwater experts are reminding residents that what happens on the ground doesn’t stay there. When heavy rain falls, anything left in the ...

Let's be real, most of us think composting is basically the gold standard of eco-friendly behavior. You're turning your banana peels into nutrient-rich soil, right? Not so fast. Research shows that ...