Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...

The spores remain dormant during the useful lifetime of the plastic, but spring back to life and start to digest the product when exposed to nutrients in compost. There's hope "we can mitigate ...

Citywide organic waste recycling comes after the 2023 start of the “single-stream” recycling program that uses one bin for ...

A lot of the stickers are indeed plastic and a lot of people don't know that,” said Cornwell. The professor from the ...

At a time when synthetic plastic has polluted nearly every corner ... the materials are biodegradable in water and even the compost bin. "Right now we use a lot of conventional nonbiodegradable ...