Aside from staking up space, when food scraps are end up in landfill and decompose without access to oxygen they release methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A researcher at Oregon State University-Cascades has received funding to develop a smart compost bin that tracks household food waste. The project, led by Patrick Donnelly, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One metro non-profit aims to make composting and recycling easier. KC Can Compost partnered with Kansas City, Missouri leaders on Thursday, introducing new composting smart cans.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palm today announced it has surpassed its preorder campaign goal for its flagship food waste bin within the first hour of sales. Palm Bin is a smart appliance that ...

Composting serves an important purpose in our society, reusing our food scraps and yard waste to fertilize gardens rather than fill up landfills. Knowing that most people don’t compost, [Darian ...

Orange bins are popping up all over the streets of Brooklyn. These bins are smart, solar-powered compost bins sporting the signature color of the NYC Department of Sanitation’s composting programs.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New smart compost bins are online at 10 Staten Island locations as part of an overall city plan to clean up city streets and reduce its rat problem, according to a Department of ...

WASHINGTON — Think about how much food waste you produce in a day. A banana peel, an apple core, the ends of vegetables that you don’t eat. When those scraps end up in a landfill it produces methane.

There are two basic ways to compost outdoors, a static bin (like the one my colleague David Priest made himself) or a compost tumbler. There are infinite ways to make a static bin (plop down a bucket ...