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.

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.

On a walk down Patchen Avenue late last week, we noticed a welcome addition to some street corners: the city’s bright orange Smart Compost bins for composting. According to the map on the NYC Compost ...

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Food waste composting in the D.C. region is big business. While the District only recently rolled out a curbside composting program, most of the surrounding suburbs have been tackling the issue for ...

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 ...

Let's face it, being more environmentally friendly is a resolution many of us make at the beginning of the year. And as we near six months in, hopefully you're off to a good start. But if you're ...

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.

KC Can Compost partners with Kansas City, Missouri leaders on Thursday, introducing new composting smart cans. They’re like dropoff spots for unused food, and technology is used to make sure the wrong ...