Each year in early May, compost advocates globally join their voices during International Compost Awareness Week.
Each year in early May, compost advocates globally join their voices during International Compost Awareness Week.
A legal petition seeking to block a major Waste Management trash-sorting facility in the San Francisco Bay Area has been denied.
A recycling program coordinator for an Ohio county has authored a backyard composting book, encouraging home composting and providing a one-stop shop for professionals who are educating others about the practice.
In Toronto, as in other cities, multi-family residential recycling rates have been stubbornly lower than their single-family counterparts. As Canada’s largest city works to boost recycling rates, a local MRF operator is experimenting with recovering recyclables from multi-family garbage streams.
In recent years, efforts out of Oregon have helped set the national pace on topics such as sustainable materials management and recycling metrics. Now, the state is beginning to do the same when it comes to food waste – or, more precisely, wasted food.