By now your Halloween pumpkin has got to be looking pretty pathetic. But not to worry, you can indeed compost your pumpkin! You can also eat it! While most pumpkins sold for ornamental purposes don’t have the rich flavor of cooking pumpkins, ornamental pumpkins can make a pretty decent pumpkin soup or pumpkin pie. Also, […]
The BBC reports that a recent compost bin giveaway in Scotland caused major traffic jams, as people waited in line in their cars for up to 3 hours to receive a free bin. The giveaway was part of a government program to increase home composting on the island nation.
This article from the UK’s Sunday Mirror talks about a plan to run buses on cow manure. They claim that it’s cheaper than diesel and odor-free! And, as we all know, cows can produce a good amount of cow-patties! The left over cow patties will be used as compost. Apparently, India is already using this […]
Restaurants produce tons and tons of food waste each month. That’s why I was happy to read yet another article about restaurants putting their waste to good use by composting. The Central Valley Business Times reported that 30 restaurants in the Modesto California area will be participating in a federally funded composting program. The resulting […]
UC Berkley’s new cafeteria has been certified organic. This amazing certification is the first of it’s kind in the U.S. You can read more about this unique program, which includes extensive composting, at TreeHugger.
San Francisco has set up what looks like a fully sustainable and self-perpetuating municipal composting system. How does it work? The organic waste from over 2,000 restaurants is placed in a compost pile. The compost goes to feed veggies and fruits produced by local farmers. The restaurants then buy the produce and products from these […]
Pakistan just inaugarated its first compost plant! Both the public and private sectors of this country were responsible in creating the nation’s first compost plant this year.
The plant – ‘Lahore Compost’ – has been set up on Bund Road near Mahmood Booti with the financial assistance of a multinational company on build, operate and transfer […]
Scientists from Kazan State University and the Open Joint-Stock Company “Nizhnekamskneft” are doing just that. As an option to storing waste products from oil that can be potentially toxic, composting is being explored as a way to deal with nasty oil waste. This article claims that the resulting oil-compost is virtually non-toxic.
Solid waste of petrochemical production […]
Packaged school lunches often mean excess waste. However, much of this garbage can be put to good use. How? Composting! Kids at Sunny Hollow Elementary School are learning what they can and can’t compost in this innovative school lunch program. By learning the benefits of composting young, these tots are likely to become adult composters.
Taking dead deer to the landfill is expensive in Montana, so the state is now composting them instead to save money and the environment at the same time.
Now, crews are taking dead deer to a small composting facility near Victor.
“It’s worked very well,” said Cora Helm with the department’s hazardous waste section. “We’ve successfully composted […]
Municipal composting seems to be getting more attention and more funding these days. For example, the Leeds Organic Growers (Logs) in England was recently awarded a grant to start a new composting program. The project will help set up a curb side composting program in the Kirkstall and Weetwood areas. Read more about the project […]
Municipal composting is made attainable when communities gather their local resources and work together towards a common goal. Here’s a great example. International NGO Exnora and the community of Chennai, India have created a municipal worm composting project that is drawing a lot of international attention. The program shows how the citizens of a small […]
In Contra Costa California, now you can compost without even doing it yourself!
They are now picking up the materials from the curb and composting it for you, in a test program.
If the service is popular, it could be extended to other communities as well.
“The challenge for us is showing that you can avoid or minimize […]
An article the UK Guardian writes about how San Francisco is working on a plan to collect dog poop and turn it into energy to power the city.
Under the pilot plan, announced this week, Sunset Scavenger will place biodegradable bags and what are tastefully called dog-waste carts in a popular San Francisco dog park. The […]
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell hopes that protecting the environment will actually turn a profit for businesses and organizations in his state. The Compost Infrastructure Development Grant Program is in innovative way to help businesses create organic compost with the waste generated from producing their products. The grants will help businesses that have high volumes […]
Sevier County, in the heart of Tennessee’s Smokey Mountains, is a strange place to find the number one municipal compost plant in the United States. You’d think that someplace like California would host this kind of super-efficient technology. However, in terms of municipal solid waste composting, Sevier County’s compost plant was recently ranked as number […]
As with Barbados, recognizing the limited space they have to store waste, the island nation of Scotland has been pushing an ambitious recycling and composting program to help reduce solid waste. This article from Edie News details their effort.
The goal was to start recycling 25% of municipal waste by 2006. While some communities in Scotland […]
The Deputy Manager of Operations at the Sanitation Service Authority of Barbados, Michael Nicholls, plans to cut the solid waste production of this island in half. How? By encouraging residents to practice composting in their homes. Barbados is known as the “Little England” of the Caribbean.
It seems like they’ve got a good start, as the […]
