A bulldozer mixes a composting windrow at Spurt Industry's composting facility in Wixom, Michigan. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

At the urging of the plastics industry, the USDA is considering allowing materials such as bioplastic cups, coffee pods and compostable plastic bags into the organic compost waste stream. Farmers and ...

Macon is the home of a new compost facility, and hopefully by the end of the year, an adjacent recycling facility, making it the first and only of its kind in the state. Complete Resource Management's ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Department of Sanitation facility on the West Shore has been turning out compost — dubbed “black gold” by city officials — since 1991, but its workload got quite a bit bigger ...