Food waste is a major landfill problem because it can release methane, a heat-trapping gas, as it breaks down without oxygen.

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Vermicomposting — a.k.a. worm composting — is a compact way to turn your food scraps into worm castings (worm poop), a moist, crumbly soil amendment known as garden gold because it provides important ...

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Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

New projects in Alaska, California, Florida, New York, Michigan and elsewhere will repair buildings, buy collection trucks ...

The eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation transforms the human body into nutrient rich soil Last December, the country's first funeral home offering natural organic reduction — ...

"To know that the last gesture you'll make will be gentle and beneficial just feels like the right thing to do," says Recompose founder Katrina Spade At the age of 50, Nina Schoen expects to have a ...

For $5,000 to $6,000, Earth Funeral wraps the body in a biodegradable shroud and places it in a proprietary vessel that contains a mixture of woodchips, organic mulch, and wildflowers.