We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's tempting to think of composting as building a holder, throwing in food and coming back a few weeks later to something you can toss in ...

In the course of a week, my kitchen produces a shocking quantity of what we might think of as edible trash: apple peels, garlic nubs, a bit of gristle from a steak, Dorito dust, tea bags, the ...

The city of Aspen and the Pitkin County landfill have acquired a new $52,000 grinder that will be used to launch a food composting program aimed at local restaurants. At least 30 percent of the local ...

A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...