Composting can decrease household waste, contribution to landfills, and drastically reduce one’s carbon footprint. Photo by Sergio Nazareth Semerdjian from Pexels. When quarantine started all the way ...

Since 2014, several UA sustainability groups have partnered together to reduce the waste generated by Spring Fling. For the past couple years, these groups have worked to make Spring Fling generate no ...

During these challenging times, while most people are working from home, sanitation workers are still out in the field providing essential services such as garbage, recycling, and organics pick-up.

Four bins to collect different types of the waste stream are installed at McHenry Library as part of a pilot project aimed at achieving zero waste on campus by 2020.

Make time for Play June 4-7: "Bill & Lois Wilson: In Their Own Words" on the Peekskill Patch calendar ...

All of the food being thrown away in my house was easy to ignore, until it started getting piled into a plastic container on the kitchen counter. The city of Gainesville provided the container as part ...

“By refusing to send our trash to the communities adjacent to waste transfer stations, landfills, and incinerators—predominantly low-income communities of color—our city will be taking concrete steps ...

At an Earth Day press conference four years ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged New York City would send zero waste to landfills by 2030, in part by scaling up an aggressive composting program to turn ...

Leigh Ratterman writes, Did you know that Missoulians waste over 25 million pounds of food each year, equating to over 29 ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — With Massachusetts’ landfills filling up, the question of what to do about waste has generated greater urgency. Landfills have closed across Massachusetts in recent years, and trash ...

Once you're looking for compostable materials, you see them everywhere. "Unofficially anything that was once alive is compostable. It can be treated instead of trashed," said Clay Ezell, Co-owner of ...