Although you can start throughout the year, choosing to start your heap during particular seasons can aid your composting ...

1. Collect plant-based kitchen scraps (shred large pieces first for more rapid decomposition). 2. Create a compost heap or ...

Whole, carved, and cooked pumpkins are fully compostable and you can also compost healthy pumpkin plants, pumpkin skins, and ...

Between Halloween pumpkin carving, Thanksgiving feasts and holiday parties, it can be the season of food waste. Luckily, ...

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A pumpkin composting program will be hosted in Henrico during the first week of November to help residents sustainably get ...

Newspapers these days are primarily printed with soy-based inks, which makes them safe to compost. In addition to composting, ...

Compost can be placed in a clear plastic bag and put in the bin for disposal. White kitchen garbage bags and black refuse ...

Composting can turn leftovers into fertilizer for your plants and homegrown produce. If you don't have a garden, you can use a product like the Mill Kitchen Bin to turn your food waste into clean ...

From carving jack-o-lanterns to baking pies, pumpkins are a staple of fall festivities and Halloween. According to the USDA, American farmers produced more than 1.6 billion pounds of pumpkins last ...

The Town of Dartmouth and the Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District are partnering with Black Earth Compost ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated how much CO2 is emitted by food waste. It isn’t two tonnes per tonne, ...