DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — When done right, composting manure and livestock is an environmentally sound way to dispose of animals and their waste, according to Mary Keena, North Dakota State University ...

Compost piles can often become delicious-looking buffets for raccoons, rodents, and other curious animals. This can be incredibly frustrating when you're trying to maintain a nutrient-rich pile for ...

Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...

Back yards are overflowing with old plant material, stuff once foolishly called "garbage:" old stems, leaves and flowers from the garden; kitchen trimmings; leaves from trees. A bit of modern-day ...

Compost bedded pack barns represent an innovative alternative to traditional housing systems, offering a dynamic environment where dairy cows benefit from continuously composted bedding materials.

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...