The dismal results of the UK's Big Compost Experiment reveal that most so-called compostable plastics do not break down in backyard compost bins. Composting is a bit like alchemy. You put food scraps ...

Bob Mattsey has allowed the city of Greenfield to use his property to dump leaves collected from throughout the city. Mattsey plans to experiment with a variety of techniques to turn the piles of ...

While a variety of different composting systems were used, the most common was an outdoor closed-bin setup, utilized by 64% of the 1,648 people who participated in the experiment. The supposedly ...

In a UK-wide study, researchers found that 60% of home-compostable plastics do not fully disintegrate in home compost bins, and inevitably end up in our soil. The study also found that citizens are ...

Seemingly every corner of our world is now littered with plastics, and only a tiny percentage of it is ever recycled. To mitigate this, many companies are offering items labeled as “compostable” or ...

Give Grand Island the sniff test over the next eight weeks. The city will be conducting two separate stink abatement experiments at the wastewater treatment plant — one this month and one in March — ...