A class action lawsuit claims the grocer and manufacturer marked the products as compostable despite containing “forever ...

Re: “New health minister has a long to-do list,” Jan. 18. The story said the new payment model for family physicians would compensate us for our office overhead, but this is incorrect.

An audit in Fredericton suggests more than 60 per cent of the material being put in garbage bags for curbside collection ...

But as good as this sounds, there are many things that you should never add to your compost bin. Certain items break down ...

From the food they eat to dog waste on the ground, our pets can end up adding to global pollution — but there are ways to ...

In their space-starved apartments, residents complain they have no good place to store their mounting food scraps — and collection can, at times, be annoying.

It's one thing to want to live a low-waste lifestyle, but it's another thing to actually take the steps necessary to live it. Frankly, it's hard living a low-waste lifestyle, since so many essential ...

New York City first began curbside residential organic waste pick-up in Queens and Brooklyn a few years before city-wide pick ...

Food dehydrators, which dry and grind up food into soil-like grounds, have emerged as a way to keep food waste out of the garbage. Here’s how to use them.

The goal is to divert as much of that stuff from the garbage stream as possible, and there is more of it than you might think. About 25% to 30% of all garbage is in the form of organic food waste.

To combat the industry's waste problem, some studios are trading throwaway materials for ones they say can biodegrade or be recycled.

Recycling efforts at the Hayden Homes Amphitheater and the Old Mill District in Bend diverted nearly 200,000 pounds of trash ...