Starting this month, tons of organic waste — from half-eaten school lunches at Bloomington High School North to the annual leftovers of Cook employees' "Cooksgiving" — will no longer be recycled into ...

Thanks to fractured or lax regulations as well as the ubiquitous contamination of our environment by industrial chemicals (particularly heavy metals and pesticides), there’s a distressingly real risk ...

According to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Oregon household’s throwaway more than 6 pounds of food each week, and 71-percent of the food discarded could have been consumed by a ...

Editor's note: This story has been modified to clarify the list of appropriate items for home composting. Starting this month, tons of organic waste — from half-eaten school lunches at Bloomington ...