Welcome to Table Scraps, an intermittent series on the growing problem of food waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, ...

Just because composting at home is easy doesn’t mean that everyone does it. Yes, organic compost is expensive at the garden center and free when you make it yourself, but if you don’t figure out a ...

On a sunny Saturday morning in June, Amanda Simons and Gabriel Doyle arrived at the Ocean View Community Garden in San Diego’s Mountain View neighborhood with a 5-gallon, locked white bucket. Inside ...

Sophie Chapman always envisioned a landfill as a faraway place. It wasn’t until she took a field trip to the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill with the local youth organization Compost Clubhouse that ...