Composting can decrease household waste, contribution to landfills, and drastically reduce one’s carbon footprint. Photo by Sergio Nazareth Semerdjian from Pexels. When quarantine started all the way ...

Since 2014, several UA sustainability groups have partnered together to reduce the waste generated by Spring Fling. For the past couple years, these groups have worked to make Spring Fling generate no ...

FOR many years, organic waste was widely regarded as a nuisance, clogging drains, filling dumpsites and polluting the ...

On a recent Saturday morning, Pamela McGhee and several neighbors were busy at work in a community garden on Detroit’s East Side, weighing food scraps and assessing compost piles for compliance. Items ...

Several local Colorado companies have implemented zero-waste policies with impressive goals; some of the more audacious timelines are calling for 100 percent diversion of the waste from their ...

All of the food being thrown away in my house was easy to ignore, until it started getting piled into a plastic container on the kitchen counter. The city of Gainesville provided the container as part ...

A pandemic was not going to deter Lou E. Reyes from composting. Even at the height of New York City’s early wave of COVID infections, Reyes masked up and dutifully lugged his bag of food scraps to his ...

During these challenging times, while most people are working from home, sanitation workers are still out in the field providing essential services such as garbage, recycling, and organics pick-up.

A family in Karnataka hosted a spectacular zero-waste wedding for over 600 guests, proving that grand celebrations can be ...