In the new year, everyone living in Bellingham will be required to have a compost bin. The city announced it’s making its ...

Citywide organic waste recycling comes after the 2023 start of the “single-stream” recycling program that uses one bin for ...

If you cook and entertain a lot, odds are you’ve come up with some method for dealing with food waste in your home. Maybe ...

Olmsted County has recently announced the extension of its food scrap compost pilot program through the end of 2025.

This year I am grateful for a new type of compost I have been trying that allows me to add dairy, meat, bones, and cooked or ...

Donate: Uncle Bill took home a whole roasting pan of leftovers, but you still have more than you can eat in the next few days ...

Although some may see this as the answer to the enormous and growing problem, these promises have been made before.

The average amount of plastic packaging waste generated by a single EU citizen per year is 36 kilograms. Longer-term ...

Ariel Ogden loves to scavenge. Her sister jokes that she’s a “minimalist hoarder,” and when you step into her cozy workshop ...

With negotiations underway for a global plastics treaty, business leaders and scientists explain how we can stop the plastic ...

Islanders who have missed their collection days have options for properly disposing of their waste, including bringing their items to any of the six of Island Waste ...