If one man's trash can be another man's gold, why give away your gold? I see so many gardeners spend tons of money on soil and fertilizer while they toss their food scraps in the garbage. If only they knew they were throwing out the very ingredients to make rich soil and amazing fertilizer!

The bottom line is recycling is good, but it's not going to get us even close to the goal of zero landfill waste. A consumer economy centered around compostable products is a lot sounder and could even be tasty.

MIDDLETON, Mass. (AP) — Down the back stairs of the clubhouse kitchen, on a plot lost among the expanse of tightly trimmed fairways and greens, week...

From Networx's Chaya Goodman: I interviewed three professors to find out what, if any, contaminants could be lurking in home compost piles. I wante...

From Earth911's Leon Kaye: While composting has become more mainstream, not everyone has access to the space necessary for the maintenance of a com...

From Earth911's Mary Mazzoni: When it comes to compostables, most of us think of the usual suspects – fruit and vegetable scraps, yard trimmings ...

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I went to an elegant dinn...

From Terri Bennett, Founder of DoYourPart.com: Americans spend a lot of money each year on food we don't even eat. The truth is that roughly 30% of...

Food scraps should not be sent to landfills or incinerators. Instead, the best option for disposing of food waste is composting, whether at home or in a municipal system.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This week, the House voted to shut down the carbon regulation program at the Environmental Protection Agency...

My mother was way ahead of her time when it came to not wasting anything.