In the late 1990s, New South Wales' Port Stephens region became the first in Australia to develop a unique co-composting waste management facility. At the facility, organic waste was separated and ...

Lawn clippings and old palm fronds are being transformed into compost by one of Australia's largest farming organisations in an attempt to reduce its carbon footprint. Green waste is being transformed ...

Only 24% of local councils in Australia separately collect household food organics and garden organics (FOGO) waste. Another 16% provide garden waste collection only. This limited progress has ...

Every day more than 700,000 tons of waste—enough to fill over 60,000 garbage trucks—makes its way to landfills across the US. While some will be burned for energy and some will stay in the dump, a ...

Imagine an enormous pile of leftover rice, vegetable scraps, or fruit peels dumped to landfill, slowly rotting and filling nearby communities with an unpleasant smell. But the smell is not the only ...

The scraps in your bin marked ‘compost’ may end up as methane. Here’s what that means When orange bins marked for “compost” drop-off first started proliferating on the streets of New York in February ...

NBA arenas are cutting waste with recycling, composting, and donations—keeping tons out of landfills while helping ...