Starting this month, tons of organic waste — from half-eaten school lunches at Bloomington High School North to the annual leftovers of Cook employees' "Cooksgiving" — will no longer be recycled into ...

Thanks to fractured or lax regulations as well as the ubiquitous contamination of our environment by industrial chemicals (particularly heavy metals and pesticides), there’s a distressingly real risk ...

Compost—organic material that is added to soil to help plants grow—is widely used by gardeners because it improves soil health and reduces the amount of organic waste in landfills. Although several ...

That pile of soil you bought at the home improvement store may contain more than just dirt, according to new research from the University of Georgia. A new UGA study published in Applied and ...

Meridian residents might get a curbside compost program in the next two years. Michael Murgoitio, owner of Timber Creek Recycling LLC, has a plan in the works to expand his recycling business into ...

Forsite Development President Tom McKittrick says he’s in negotiations with an indoor composting company for the ReVenture Park project. Forsite Development President Tom McKittrick says he’s in ...

In a new study, researchers have measured the number of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in backyard and commercial compost. Compost -- organic material that is added to soil to help plants ...