Welcome to Table Scraps, an intermittent series on the growing problem of food waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, ...

One of the easiest ways to help keep some of the 1.4 billion tons of food waste that humans produce globally out of landfills is to keep a compost bin in your kitchen or yard. By throwing organic ...

Although we should try to keep as little of our organic waste as possible from going to the landfill, not everyone has the outdoor space for a compost heap. The Puresky Waste Composter is designed to ...

It takes two to three weeks for a properly maintained 2-foot pile of leaves to turn into a bucket full of black, crumbly, sweet-smelling compost. Connie Gannon Fresno Bee archive Many gardeners are ...

Scraping kitchen waste is the first step toward an effective home composting system. Hector Amezcua Sacramento Bee file It is estimated that 30 percent of residential waste can be composted (according ...

Why pay to throw away leaves, grass clippings, kitchen scraps and other household organic waste when you could turn it into superb soil? That’s the idea of composting – improving your lousy soil while ...