And now more cities are implementing curbside composting to help them meet their sustainability goals. New York is currently rolling out a mandatory composting program that will soon be effect in ...

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The town has received a $300,000 grant to install a new composting facility at the Kent transfer station where food scraps will be collected as part of a larger effort by the state to divert organic ...

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County is setting a path towards scaling composting countywide. The proposed new ordinance will be seen by Miami-Dade commissioners on Thursday for a second reading and final vote.

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nearly three years after the vast majority of Denver voters approved a ballot initiative requiring restaurants and apartment buildings to recycle and compost ...

After many starts and stops, curbside composting has expanded citywide. Now, separating organic waste from landfill trash is mandatory in every borough. And it’s working — the city is capturing 5 ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month process transforms the human body into soil "so that our last act on the ...

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