Who really wants to keep smelly food scraps in a fly-attracting bucket in their kitchen? That question is what led Gail Loos, a full-time marketer and mother of two, to develop the GreenCycler ...

Inside my house, the shredder is the equivalent of the compost bin outdoors, based on how much it is put to work. I shred everything. In fact, I derive great pleasure from it. If you think that sounds ...

Modi’s ‘Swachch Bharat’ campaign may be all kinds of complicated, but there are some determined souls who for no personal gain of their own, strive to make the environment a little more green and a ...

Q: I have read with great interest and desperation your writings on composting. From my own experience, I concur with your advice that the organic material needs to be no more than 1/2 inch in size. I ...

Those leaves are then often raked up and put on the curbside to be collected with the trash. Please, don’t do that. They are a valuable form of organic matter that can be put to use in your landscape.

Every year I have some wintertime yard chores to do, which includes pruning a few branches from the numerous trees on my half-acre property. Most of the time it consists of minor pruning of a few ...

A $383,990 Recycling Development and Implementation grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection will help the Mountain Top Council of Governments move into phase 2 of its compost ...