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.

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 ...

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

Authors of the new plastic waste report, echoing the first-year report, said after the plastic reduction law roughly 16.5 ...

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

Goodwill's move aligns with a growing national movement to curb plastic bag use. By January 2024, twelve states had enacted ...

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

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.

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

This change will go into effect March 1. The cost of the bags will go from 75 cents to $1 for 13-gallon bags, $1.50 to $2 for ...