The federal definition of compost has been static for decades. In a welcome development, the US Department of Agriculture is reviewing this definition in order to extend it beyond plant and animal ...

Aside from staking up space, when food scraps are end up in landfill and decompose without access to oxygen they release methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Few know this, but I have 3,000 employees working for me at home. They don’t punch a clock, but they toil day and night. We never speak, but we meet for a few moments every few days. I supply them ...

Listen to this episode of the GeekWire Podcast. Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, All Episodes Last year, lifestyle icon Martha Stewart created an internet sensation ...

Composters are a great way to shrink your ecological footprint and a cost-effective solution for feeding your garden (Did you know that one third of the world’s fertilizer passes through the Strait of ...

The intensification of global agriculture results in significant disposal challenges, with 14 billion tons of crop straw and 125 million tons of livestock manure produced annually. Traditional ...

Virro announced the launch of Renew, an advanced waterless toilet series that defines a new “ReGen” category of composting toilets. Renew is now available ...

Watch a powerful trommel screener process organic waste into high-quality compost with exceptional speed and efficiency. Designed for large-scale composting and recycling operations, this advanced ...

Ben Stanger, founder and CEO of Green Box Compost, picks up buckets of food scraps from a client’s home in Madison, Wisconsin. Green Box Compost charges Madison subscribers $24 a month for a ...

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Jul 22, 2026 at 6:04 am August 5, 2026 at 1:24 pm Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts, ...

Starting in 2009, the university collected food scraps at campus cafeterias to send to the West Madison Agricultural Research Station for composting. In 2018, the university began bringing scraps to ...