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 ...

Pesticide-laced compost has presented a quandary for the USDA’s National Organic Program ever since California regulators traced residues of dichlorophenyl-dichloroethylene, a breakdown product of DDT ...

Backyard gardeners and farmers in Durango will have access to fresh, local compost soon. Table to Farm Compost’s new commercial facility at 7358 County Road 236, north of Elmore’s Corner, cleared one ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the pandemic keeps many people closer to home than usual, a remarkable number of folks are spending more time tending their gardens and landscapes. As usual, shifting weather caused fluctuations in ...

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Metro, the regional government that oversees the city's commercial food waste collection, is changing the rules for what kind of material it accepts at its Portland transfer station. Within a year, ...

Mature homemade compost is the best tonic for the soil and plants we grow, but however much compost you make you’ll rarely have enough. So you will have to supplement from the bewildering piles of ...

COOPER TOWNSHIP, MI – A Chicago businessman, turned down three times in other Southwest Michigan communities, is asking Cooper Township residents to consider his proposal to build a commercial-size ...

HENRIETTA, N.Y. — Neighbors of a growing, commercial compost pile in Henrietta are fed up. It’s not only the smell that’s keeping them up at night, but the possible environmental impacts of what’s ...