Food is the number one material thrown in the trash in the United States. Roughly 80 billion pounds are sent to incinerators and landfills each year. But, according to Sam King of Blue Earth Compost, ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- The mission is simple, compost, grow, eat and repeat. A local company is providing an at-your-door composting service to help the community produce zero waste. "Food scrap recycling is ...

PLYMOUTH — Colonial School District Adult Evening School’s current lineup features classes on everything from arts and crafts to yoga. But given ongoing concerns about climate change and other ...

HARTFORD, CT — Entrepreneurs at Blue Earth Compost have begun a crowdfunding and marketing campaign they say can put the company in a position to reduce food waste burdening the state’s aging trash ...

Nathan Bronk has been composting for as long as he can remember. “I swear we have had the same cut-off milk jug at my parents’ house like since I was born,” he said. A few years ago, he was part of ...

Jesse and Melissa Stowers’ interest in composting began when they noticed that their five-person family generated more than one bag of trash a day. Jesse Stowers was concerned. “If everyone ... does ...

The Miramar Greenery is using a state-of-the-art system that is producing the compost in less time and keeping over 100,000 tons of waste out of the landfill. The process starts with curbside green ...