Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a ...

The site is all about composting, but not in the complicated or scientific way that usually scares kids; it’s actually welcoming with its beautifully designed graphics. So once you open the website, ...

Organic food waste may get another life as garden fertilizer if waste officials start a composting program. The Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority will decide by the end of 2013 if it’s going ...

It is humankind’s ingrained horror of flies, not to mention maggots, rats and foul odours, that is likely the greatest deterrent to Montreal’s organic waste collection efforts. Building ...

How the composting system works The city composts 50,000 tonnes of organic material a year collected from 136,000 residential green bins and businesses.

Whether it’s better in the long term to continue shipping kitchen scraps and other organic waste outside of Halton or cure it into compost within the region itself, perhaps at the landfill site in ...

Hope on the composting horizon There are signs of hope on the organic composting horizon, however. Montreal has expanded its pickup of organic materials to 87 per cent of the residential ...