The best gardeners know the simple truth about compost: It’s better than fertilizer when it comes to providing a nutrient-rich growing environment for plants. Composting is easy and inexpensive, and ...

Sami Grover is a writer and self-described “environmental do-gooder,” now advising community organizations. From taking my compost with me when I moved house, to composting the waste produced by the ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a ...

Compost: everybody's doing it, or they should be. Food waste is a major contributor to landfills, which is why some cities are starting to get aggressive about requiring composting, with their own ...

Generating less trash is a worthy goal. But we all have to eat, and more food ends up in landfills than any other type of trash material, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It makes up ...

Topekan Alex Stokes considers himself a problem solver. So when the mathematically minded Stokes heard of a consumer need he thought he could help meet, he got to work on an invention for which he ...

An innovative new composting and whole waste management system that promises to recover a high proportion of recyclable material, produce a consistent, high quality compost for a range of new markets ...