While single-use bags labeled as compostable are an alternative for plastic bags, they are not to be disposed of in the green bins used to collect compostable waste, including food scraps and yard ...

Green organic waste bins recently left in Koreatown. The Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation has been dropping off many green bins around town in an effort to increase composting. (Kayla Bartkowski/Los ...

It’s that time of the week when your food waste pail is full, and you’re ready to walk your scraps out to the green-waste bin. (You are following your community’s rules about composting food scraps, ...

Separating food scraps from the rest of your trash may seem like a pain at first. But look at it this way: Every chicken bone, banana peel and egg shell that doesn’t wind up in a landfill benefits not ...

Compost at home? Don’t I have to send all my kitchen scraps to the curb in my green waste bin? Nope! They don’t ALL have to go into your green bin. They just can’t go into the landfill, according to ...

Orem residents may not have noticed, but as of March, Waste Management is no longer separating green waste from regular trash collected from curbside bins. During the March 8 city council work session ...

SAN DIEGO — The City of San Diego says it has now delivered 213,000 green waste bins to homes. The bins are meant to collect food scraps, paper, and yard waste and other organic material. But are you ...