Have you ever considered what happens to the materials you throw out in your garbage can? Where do they go and what happens to them? What does the journey look like for your banana peel? If you were ...

As of July, all Sacramento County — including city — residents are mandated to separate their organic waste material from their trash — but the rules surrounding what can and cannot be tossed in the ...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Denali, the nation’s leading recycler of organics, today revealed it recycled 14 billion pounds of organic wastes and byproducts according to its newly released ...

Bioplastics are an attractive and viable alternative to traditional fossil fuel-based plastics. They can be produced by bioconversion using microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeast, to convert ...

Home composting is essential for serious gardeners. Affectionately known as "black gold", compost is the nutritious, loamy material you get from letting organic matter decompose. It enriches the soil ...

Eighty people opted to cram in the conference room at the Mendenhall Valley Library to hear Lisa Daugherty offer advice on composting on a sunny Saturday last March instead of bask under blue sky.

Nanotechnology deals with the synthesis and modification of physical and chemical properties of the material at an extremely small scale. How small is nano? Nanomaterials should have one of their ...