Senate lawmakers have reintroduced two pieces of bipartisan legislation focused on improving the nation’s recycling and composting systems. Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) ...

Congressmen Joe Neguse of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennesee and Bill Foster of Illinois have introduced legislation to identify national composting infrastructure challenges and improve recycling ...

Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over half of all ...

Forget about solving Fermat’s Theorem, outlining the social messages in Charles Dickens’ “Little Doritt,” or mastering computer coding in HTML, University of Washington students are far from getting a ...

Some states, municipalities and private-sector companies are pushing to make composting as commonplace as recycling. But it's a long-haul effort. Composting has many benefits for the environment. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In order to live a sustainable life, it’s important to intimately know how much waste you produce so that you can either reduce or ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has passed two measures directed at improving the country's recycling and composting capabilities, with senators now waiting for action in the House of Representatives.

The city of Boulder had the best city residential and commercial recycling and composting rate anywhere in the state, at 52 percent, according to a new report out from the local nonprofit group ...

Although details need to be worked out over the next three years, Ontario County’s 10-year draft Local Solid Waste Management ...

Vail was recently celebrated as the municipality with the third-highest citywide recycling and composting rate in the 2022 State of Recycling and Composting in Colorado report. With a rate of 35% ...

Sherri “Sam” Mason believes that recycling glass and food compost in the city of Erie could be an efficient, cost-effective and environmentally responsible process. Mason and a group of student ...

OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) has partnered with Agromin Corporation, California’s largest organics recycler and a leading ...