Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...

Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...

In North America, a whopping 30 to 40 per cent of our residential waste is organic -- biodegradable garbage that could be composted but is often sent to landfills. A new study shows that one method of ...

Although your backyard garden may look like a vacant lot, lots of “cool” things are happening there as winter sets in. Soil is active all year long, and some plants continue to take nutrients ...

Maggots in compost are almost always black soldier fly larvae, and in most bins they’re harmless. Finding a modest number of ...

If you work your way down the food chain, traveling, say, from the quail fry with grits, chard, slab bacon and maple jus on the menu at Animal to the rows of chard and thus to the field in which the ...

Growers large and small are hosting garden tea parties; semi-floral attire, please. The proper hosts will serve a potent, dark brew: compost tea made not only from leaves but also from grass clippings ...

So they end up in landfills, which were designed to store material — not allow them to break down. The lack of oxygen in landfills means organic matter like pumpkins produce methane gas, a greenhouse ...

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...