Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person dumping food scraps into a compost pile - Viktor Sergeevich/Shutterstock Compost is made up of decomposed organic matter ...

Trash disappears when you toss it in the bin. Except it doesn’t. Some of it might get composted, some might get recycled, but most of it will end up in a double-tied plastic bag, tossed into the mouth ...

After returning from summer break, students noticed that some of their favorite dining halls were missing a previous staple: compost bins. “A lot of my friends are upset and often ask, ‘what’s up with ...

Colorado's largest commercial compost company has a message for anyone tossing pizza boxes and disposable cups into green bins, hoping it might someday return to the earth as organic soil: Stop. Due ...

The promise is simple. A small backyard setup is supposed to transform all sorts of kitchen waste into a nutrient-dense compost, a material so prized by gardeners that they gave it the nickname “black ...

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Many gardeners add compost to their landscape or vegetable beds as fertilizer. Compost is organic matter that contains the macro nutrients needed by the plant. Inorganic fertilizers provide plants ...

"It's always frustrated me that we can't compost here—even though I get why. Tower blocks just aren't built for it," said Alexandra, a 42-year-old Tower Hamlets resident, living on the ninth floor.