CompostNow, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is one of the nation’s growing group of “community composters." These grassroots organizations help individuals, organizations and food service providers ...

“Our best hope for a better future lies in communities coming together to care for the land we inhabit. Losing city-funded community composting programs will make that much harder.” A rally to save ...

Community composting is growing across the country but problems arise as cities lag behind in regulations and zoning laws. Food waste takes up a lot of landfill space. Turning that garbage into ...

It’s a common sight most days to see people walking up to the blue house at the end of a Chula Vista cul-de-sac carrying a container filled with food scraps. They then empty those scraps into one of ...

Tracie Troxler’s mission is about more than just throwing food scraps in a bucket. It’s about interconnectedness—the web that unites soil with community, and nature with health. “Healthy plants and ...

Garbage in New York City is transported to landfills outside of the state. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all have landfills full of our old clothes, packaging, contents of our last closet purge, ...

Jennifer Bisram is an award-winning reporter and anchor who joined CBS News New York in 2022. She covers aging and caregiving, as well as crime and community stories. NEW YORK -- New York City could ...

Long Beach Community Compost, a primarily volunteer-run organization with a mission to transform waste into soil, is hoping to raise some money to support its community work and programming. Since it ...

Before she graduated last year, Meradith Hoddinott ’12 wrote about the expansion of the college’s composting program from a nascent effort by “a handful of forward-thinking students” to an ...