Additionally, food scraps attract pests such as rats and cockroaches, which can carry diseases. Furthermore, flushing ...

Today is Earth Day, making it the perfect time to consider how to minimize our food waste. The best way to begin is simply to be more mindful about how much waste you're throwing away in the trash.

This is because the Gordons and Four Lakes dining halls send food scraps to the West Madison Agricultural Research Station for composting. In the past, UW and the city of Madison both sent food scraps ...

Each source gives the same basic advice: build your bin, collect your food scraps, stockpile brown materials, maintain your ratios, monitor and amend moisture and aeration levels, then let a full ...

For the purposes of this article, I'm going to define food scraps as anything edible or non-edible that is being thrown away. I am using this more expansive term because many scraps like bones and ...