Composting can decrease household waste, contribution to landfills, and drastically reduce one’s carbon footprint. Photo by Sergio Nazareth Semerdjian from Pexels. When quarantine started all the way ...

Pexels Most of us don’t think about climate policy when we toss wilted spinach in the trash. Yet the kitchen is one of the ...

Four bins to collect different types of the waste stream are installed at McHenry Library as part of a pilot project aimed at achieving zero waste on campus by 2020.

During these challenging times, while most people are working from home, sanitation workers are still out in the field providing essential services such as garbage, recycling, and organics pick-up.

There are many natural products you may mindlessly toss in the garbage that could actually feed your compost pile and reduce ...

Since 2014, several UA sustainability groups have partnered together to reduce the waste generated by Spring Fling. For the past couple years, these groups have worked to make Spring Fling generate no ...

The backyard barbecue is one of summer’s most reliable pleasures. Smoke in the air, something cold in your hand, friends and ...

There’s a lot of waste that comes out of a classroom daily—dried-up markers, used tissues, filled-out worksheets, half-eaten snacks ... the list goes on. A lot of that trash can feel inevitable. But ...

On a recent Saturday morning, Pamela McGhee and several neighbors were busy at work in a community garden on Detroit’s East Side, weighing food scraps and assessing compost piles for compliance. Items ...

All of the food being thrown away in my house was easy to ignore, until it started getting piled into a plastic container on the kitchen counter. The city of Gainesville provided the container as part ...

When Tom’s of Maine made a zero-waste goal at its factory in Sanford, Maine, the biggest challenge was toothpaste: The company could figure out how to recycle boxes and save energy and water, but it ...

Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to reflect that curbside service is every other week and drop-off service is available on an "as needed" basis. Fort Collins residents who ...