Aside from staking up space, when food scraps are end up in landfill and decompose without access to oxygen they release methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.

On a walk down Patchen Avenue late last week, we noticed a welcome addition to some street corners: the city’s bright orange Smart Compost bins for composting. According to the map on the NYC Compost ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One metro non-profit aims to make composting and recycling easier. KC Can Compost partnered with Kansas City, Missouri leaders on Thursday, introducing new composting smart cans.

Transform your gardening routine with this smart, eco-friendly upgrade—a compact compost bin made from a recycled tank. In this video, you’ll discover how to turn unused materials into a space-saving ...

Emptying a Smart Bin takes about 45 seconds. One sanitation worker unlocks the ruddy orange container with a swipe of his hand, using a keycard tucked into his glove. A door at the front of the bin ...

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New York City has been big on bins lately. The Department of Sanitation piloted locked communal receptacles in Brooklyn and Manhattan and is paying McKinsey $4 million to study how the city might ...

Did you know that every year, North Carolinians throw away enough trash to circle the earth twice? One way to save money and help our environment is to compost. Composting is an easy, fascinating, and ...