ARLINGTON, Va. (DC News Now) — Arlington County is implementing a pilot program where residents can dispose of their food scraps and food-soiled paper in special bins around the county. The ...

Yellow Light: Composting Natural Plant Materials. You can compost most garden and kitchen plant waste: Think old herbs you ...

It’s tempting to think of composting as building a holder, throwing in food and coming back a few weeks later to something you can toss in your garden, but the reality requires much more time ...

Items that should not be added to the food scrap recycling stream include yard trimmings, pizza boxes or other paper products. Please don’t toss pet waste into the mix; Monger said, “I think ...

Severo said Modesto residents and businesses are required to put food scraps into the green organics container, along with other organic waste, such as paper products and lawn trimmings, under ...

Metro Nashville collected more than 200,000 pounds of food scraps during the first year of a pilot program aimed at making it more convenient to divert waste from landfills through composting.

Although most composting facilities in the United States process only yard trimmings, curbside food-scrap collection has increased by 49 percent since 2021, according to a report released this ...

Dear Heloise: Instead of storing food scraps in a plastic bag in the freezer to put in the green bin for composting on recycling day (as another reader suggested), consider using a small brown ...