BERWYN, Ill. (CBS) – While it may look like garbage, composting is the process of recycling organic materials to fight food waste. If everyone in the U.S. composted, it would be like removing almost 8 ...

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 ...

From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. DULUTH, Minn. – Servers at the Duluth Grill Family of Restaurants don’t mind separating food scraps ...

Electric composters are a recent innovation with a promising future. Now you can compost at home in small spaces with no ...

Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...

Sep. 14—TRAVERSE CITY — The Michigan Recycling Coalition and the Michigan Organics Council are hosting the Great Michigan Compost Tour around the state this fall. Locally, SEEDS Ecology and Education ...

Dear Eartha, I saw so much food wasted during the holidays. My New Year’s resolution is to throw away less food and support ...

Olivia, Wildflower and others prize composting but wonder if there are enough incentives and direction from the city ...

Bennett Compost and Circle Compost say a goal after Thursday's merger is to get more apartment and office buildings to sign ...

ATTLEBORO — The Attleboro Recycling Center is starting a drop-off composting program Tuesday. Garbage makes up nearly half the municipal solid waste going to incinerators and landfills, according to ...

For the next two months — and maybe longer — Naperville residents will be able to drop off food scraps and yard waste at two compost locations in town. As of this week, the city is allowing compost ...

A Charleston city experiment that asked people to bring their residential food scraps to drop-off sites in parks for composting has now become an established program across much of the county. The ...