Researchers have found that concrete can be made 30% stronger by replacing a percentage of sand with spent coffee grounds, an organic waste product produced in huge amounts that usually ends up in ...

Using a compostable bag or layering food waste with yard trimmings or food-soiled paper will reduce or eliminate odor and pests.

Rancho Bernardo residents to get city organic waste green bins next week Weekly collection will begin in RB on Aug. 8 Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month.

Dempsey's solution? She threaded a bungee cord through the hinges of all of her waste and recycling bins. Once connected, the bins collectively were too heavy for the raccoons to knock down.

To achieve collection of organic waste targets, effective policies and incentives will need to be put in place for councils or private waste management companies, writes William Clarke.

Sacramento residents get free kitchen countertop waste bins, compostable bags through the city’s new organic waste program. To qualify, you must have a city address.

Deputy mayor, Cllr Mthandeni Mbutho and Kavershen Subben (head of waste department) receive the concrete bins. To aid Umdoni’s ongoing campaign to become a clean town, the municipality recently ...

Citywide organic waste recycling comes after the 2023 start of the “single-stream” recycling program that uses one bin for metal, glass, plastic, paper and cardboard.

Next, the bins should be at highly accessible locations such as at the foot of HDB blocks, to make the deposition of organic waste convenient for residents.

Most food waste still goes into red bins of mixed waste bound for landfill. It’s using up precious landfill space and harming the environment when it could produce valuable compost and biogas ...