The best compost bins can handle everything from your morning coffee and eggs, to the veggie stir fry you had for dinner and any additional scraps, peels and grounds over the course of a day.

Turn your kitchen scraps into garden gold in minutes, no compost bin required. Blending kitchen scraps with water makes quick compost to feed plants. Chop up and freeze compostable kitchen waste to ...

It takes two to three weeks for a properly maintained 2-foot pile of leaves to turn into a bucket full of black, crumbly, sweet-smelling compost. Connie Gannon Fresno Bee archive Many gardeners are ...

The most practical and economical way of solving the solid waste problem is to entrust the responsibility of sorting and disposing of the biodegradable waste with the waste generator himself, ...

Using a compost heap is a great way of putting food waste to use, but that waste can take several weeks or longer to become compost – in the meantime, it may stink or attract pests. The indoor Kalea ...

The government has effectively ruled out today the use of any compost containing kitchen waste being spread on land in the UK. The position comes in a briefing note from DEFRA. In it the department ...

The UK's first animal by-products composting site will win official approval in January 2004, according to DEFRA. A government spokeswoman told letsrecycle.com that the State Veterinary Service is due ...