A sign on the compost bins at Troy’s food scrap drop-off area is seen Tuesday at Troy Resource Management Center in Troy. Troy’s food scrap drop-off area for compost at the Troy Resource Management ...

Bennett Compost and Circle Compost say a goal after Thursday's merger is to get more apartment and office buildings to sign ...

Food waste doesn’t necessarily belong in landfills. It can be turned into a valuable resource: compost. That’s according to the town of Cary and environmental advocates working to reduce waste in the ...

On trash pickup day in Los Angeles, the orange peels, carrot tops, egg shells and brown paper bags are no longer carted off to the local landfill. Instead, they go to a compost facility called ...

A Triad nonprofit is helping keep our environment clean and healthy. "We throw so much in our landfills, the things that can break down and be useful to us. We need to collect and compost them," Jodi ...

A Charleston city experiment that asked people to bring their residential food scraps to drop-off sites in parks for composting has now become an established program across much of the county. The ...

The city of Detroit is launching its first food composting pilot program, with officials hopeful it will lay the groundwork for a citywide system. “The pilot is an exciting step forward in how Detroit ...

Caroline Johnson-Stephen, left, a volunteer, turns a pile of compost under the guidance of Alex Plaza, manager of LA Compost at Cottonwood Urban Farm in Panorama City. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...