Many people start composting for practical reasons. Home composting your leaves, grass clippings, garden waste and food scraps reduces the amount of garbage you generate. Plus, compost is essential ...

When I read this Grist story, last week, about toxins in commercial and municipal compost, I was deeply discouraged. Though I’d like to make my own compost on my property, I’m not set up for it, yet, ...

Compost and mulch. Both are great soil conditioners, but how do they differ? Each serves as a time-release fertilizer and insulator. When augmented with livestock and poultry manure, nutrient-rich ...

“Composting is the human version of re-creating what Mother Nature does out in the wild”: mixing together organic materials to facilitate healthy decomposition, says Rebecca Louie, founder of the ...

Costa shares some simple tips to create compost for the garden. The key to creating good compost is to think like a microbe, Costa says; like us, they need air, water and food. Get that right, and the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In my garden I compost everything. I've got a large compost heap in the corner for garden refuse, and a ...

You probably expect this to be another feel-good story about sustainability and backyard bins. It's not. Let's be real, ...

As well as helping to reduce the volume of waste shipped off to landfill, compost can have real health benefits - if you are a plant. While compost’s benefits as a fertiliser and provider of nutrients ...

That banana peel in the waste bin will eventually, naturally decompose, as will all organic waste, thanks to helpful microorganisms in the environment that feed on the decaying detritus. Composting is ...

Brownfield regeneration remains key to the Government’s plan for creating sustainable communities. As much as a third of the 66,000 hectares of brownfield land identified by the National Land Use ...