Starting next month, people who want to enter the afterlife in soil form have an option in metro Atlanta. Driving the news: A ...

In the fight for our planet's health and against global warming, composting is, and has been for generations, an efficient ...

There's growing interest in alternatives to traditional burials and in making the process more environmentally friendly in ...

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Vermicomposting — a.k.a. worm composting — is a compact way to turn your food scraps into worm castings (worm poop), a moist, crumbly soil amendment known as garden gold because it provides important ...

Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That’s a problem because in that environment, organic waste is deprived of oxygen, which ...

Composting is the most Earth-friendly way to dispose of food waste and it's easy to get started. Composting can have many benefits, such as reducing food waste, promoting healthy plant growth, ...

To worm or not to worm? When it comes to composting, that’s the question many savvy gardeners are pondering these days, and for good reason: Worm castings — a.k.a. poop — are the nutrient-rich organic ...

Tucked into a nondescript warehouse development in Howard County, along winding roads lined with semi trucks, sits a facility dedicated to the dead. It offers a newly legal servic ...

Cincinnatians diverted 96,000 pounds of food from the landfill during a composting pilot program over the past year.