Traditional composting is a long process. It can take six months to more than a year to make usable compost for your garden. This is fine if you have the time and keep the process going continuously, ...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a powerful technology for creating biogas and digestate from organic waste. While biogas is of ...

Homemade compost is a vital ingredient of any sustainable garden, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach to making it. There are several types of composting worth exploring – each with its own ...

Food scraps make up 25 billion pounds of trash per year in this country—captured energy that could go back into greening the planet. A wilted broccoli stalk, a grapefruit peel, a carrot top. That’s ...

Every fall, as vibrant leaves blanket the ground, homeowners start their annual raking routine. This year, instead of ...

Even in the seemingly simple world of leaves and grass clippings there is talk of high-tech and low-tech. The high-tech method for dealing with the ban on dumping yard waste in landfills, which goes ...

Durham residents show increased interest in sustainability, attending a composting session led by the local solid waste ...

Lisa Tornatore, assistant director of Sustainability@BU, wrote in an email that the CORe facility, which accepts much of BU’s compost, “typically sorts out utensils and sends them to [a] ...