It takes time to make compost. Organic matter requires about two to three months to break down in hot compost piles, and up to a year or more in cold composting systems. But if you add a compost ...

Some gardeners have asked if composting garden, yard and food waste is sustainable or beneficial to the environment since the composting process generates lots of carbon dioxide, the principal ...

huntington, w.va. — Marshall University is set to officially open the first commercial composting facility inWest Virginia with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, April 14. The addition of the new ...

With the pandemic, more people than ever are ordering take-out food, along with the packaging and foodservice wares that go with it. Sustainable foodservice ware can help "green" your business while ...

Management of animal wastes has been the focus of intensive research for the past two decades. While manure management techniques have been studied, little information is available about the economic ...

On a microscopic level, composting refers to a biological process where bacteria, fungi and even worms break down organic material to generate a product that looks like soil but is technically a soil ...

Generating less trash is a worthy goal. But we all have to eat, and more food ends up in landfills than any other type of trash material, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It makes up ...