Compost bedded pack barns represent an innovative alternative to traditional housing systems, offering a dynamic environment where dairy cows benefit from continuously composted bedding materials.

In a 19-year study, scientists dug roughly 6 feet down to compare soil carbon changes in different cropping systems. They found that compost is a key to storing carbon, a strategy for offsetting ...

For their 19-year study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists dug roughly 6 feet down to compare soil carbon changes in conventional, cover-cropped and compost-added plots of ...

Each year, Americans throw out 400 pounds of food per person. Here are three composters who are thinking about the soil as well as better food waste systems. WeRadiate is a Brooklyn, New York-based ...

Using a compost starter can speed up the process.

CPP Compost Club grows sustainability on campus By Aadi Mehta, The Cal Poly Pomona Compost Club is turning food waste into nutrient-rich soil while changing how students think about sustainability.

ROCHESTER, Minn — Volunteers from throughout the city of Rochester came out strong for an agricultural compost build day, which months from now will be used by immigrant farmers to feed and support ...

If you buy a smoothie in Portland, Oregon, the drink might come in a compostable plastic cup, a choice a thoughtful owner might make to make their operations more sustainable. You might think, at a ...

Compostable packaging promises to turn food-soiled packs into soil-building compost, but only when the materials and formats break down in the conditions real facilities run every day. Certification ...

Composting transforms kitchen scraps and yard waste into black gold for your garden, but not everything belongs in your compost bin. While the idea of recycling organic materials sounds ...

Domingo Morales will be the first to tell you that composting changed his life. It all started in 2015 when the Brooklyn resident spotted a flier for Green City Force — an AmeriCorps sustainability ...