MIDDLETOWN — A bucket of moldy old food scraps and pizza boxes may not seem like the foundation for a sound business plan, but it is an enriching one for at least one Delco man as Americans discover ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. A few U.S. cities have embraced composting systems, but even ...

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Dear Eartha: At a cocktail party last week, I heard about a composting ‘machine’ that fits under your countertop and produces finished compost in two weeks without any odor at all. It sounds too good ...

Americans will consume more than 12 million pizzas for the Super Bowl, and millions of those pizza boxes will end up in a landfill. But the recycling industry is changing its tune on what Americans ...

Since curbside newspaper boxes don’t get a lot of action selling papers anymore, a new urban intervention puts them to use as something else: convenient compost bins. “The boxes are so commonplace in ...

New York Compost, a project by designer Debbie Ullman, a former art director at the New York Daily News takes those ubiquitous but underutilized newspaper boxes you see on the sidewalks of New York ...