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.