Turn summer scraps into soil, not trash. Learn how to start a simple backyard compost pile, what to put in, and how to keep ...

You can add all kinds of kitchen scraps to a compost pile. Find out how to use the leftover scraps from one type of produce ...

First, London advised turning the compost weekly to promote the breakdown of organic materials. Fruits, vegetables, coffee ...

Chances are you have a lot of this fruit scrap, and it's perfect for composting. Like other food waste, it will contribute to ...

When I began researching how to compost a few months ago, I immediately became overwhelmed. All the different composting methods I read about were seemingly inaccessible to me —I couldn’t start ...

Maggots in compost are almost always black soldier fly larvae, and in most bins they’re harmless. Finding a modest number of ...

Dear Eartha, I collect my food scraps at home but the restaurant I work for doesn’t. I’d like to help them start composting food waste. What should I do? High five for composting your food scraps. You ...

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...

Publix’s Good Together program, launched in 2009, donates unsold but safe-to-eat food from multiple store departments to Feeding America partner food banks and other nonprofits. The company also ...

Cracked egg shells. Meat bones. Vegetable scraps. Most Long Islanders toss their food scraps in the garbage, where they are then delivered to a landfill or an incinerator. But few municipalities offer ...