Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...

A pilot program offering Olmsted County residents food waste composting services is being extended through 2025. Olmsted County Environmental Resources launched a drop-off household composting program ...

Having food waste compost picked up from the restaurant ... t make sense to drive all the way across town with your small bag of food scraps,” Wittmer said. With organic waste and food waste ...

Do our “compostable” bags, utensils and containers really return to nature? Hailed as a solution to the plastic problem, a ...

Anyone interested in participating in the food scrap program can purchase a kit online at www.olmstedwaste.com. Kits can also be purchased during business hours at 2122 Campus Drive SE in Rochester.

Electric composters simplify and speed up the natural composting process, turning food scraps ... dehydrated compost grounds from the electric composters is easy, as they generate small piles ...

et cetera), nitrogen-rich “greens” (food scraps like apple cores or banana peels), water, and air. Over time, bacteria break down the scraps to create compost, a soil additive rich in plant ...

People collected their food scraps ... compost turned over into nutrient rich soil that then can go back out into the community, where it goes to farmers, gardeners, landscapers, as well as they ...

Most of us have heard the adage, “One person’s trash is another’s treasure.” This couldn’t be truer for Table to Farm Compost, a locally owned small business and team of self-described “climate ...