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With snow on the sidewalk and ice on the porch steps, a reasonable person might ask: Do I really have to take the potato peelings out to the compost bin? They wouldn’t break down until spring anyway, would they? Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/home/ct-home-0131-garden-morton-20190124-story.html

Norwegian company, Nofir, has collected 24 tonnes of old fishing equipment from Antartica, in a bid to rid the world’s oceans of lost and discarded gear. Link: https://www.worldfishing.net/news101/industry-news/from-antartic-waste-to-new-products

Hunt Griffith walked along Sansom Street in West Philadelphia recently, just after city Streets Department workers had scooped up blue recycling buckets, dumped them into a truck, and roared away. Link: http://www.philly.com/science/climate/recycling-costs-philadelphia-incinerator-waste-to-energy-plant-20190125.html

Metro could implement simple interventions to increase waste diversion, says researcher Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/we-can-do-a-lot-better-metro-vancouver-recycling-composting-rate-stalls-at-63-1.4992233

SEATTLE — Leslie Christian recently added unusual language to her living will: After death, she hoped her remains would be reduced to soil and spread around to help out some flowers,a tree. In essence, compost. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/death-human-compost.html

Dog poop is never a walk in the park to clean up. But as responsible dog owners, it’s our job to make sure that we don’t leave a mark. Sadly, the very way dog poop is usually disposed of can have an impact on the environment. One solution to this …

PARIS (AFP) – Weighing more than all commercial airliners ever built and worth more than most countries‘ GDP, electronic waste poses a growing economic and environmental threat, experts said Thursday (Jan 24), as they launched a global initiative to clean it up. Link: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/war-declared-on-worlds-growing-e-waste-crisis

Imagine enjoying a nice beersipping a delicious cocktail while watching municipal waste being sorted and processed. It certainly does not sound the most appealing setting for an evening out but an initiative launched by the recycling sector in Japan may change all that. Link: https://recyclinginternational.com/business/latest-tokyo-attraction-the-recycling-cocktail-bar/

Adding compost to the soil is an important component of soil management for semi-arid Colorado landscapes because soils in dry climates are usually naturally low in organic matter. We will discuss the various techniques of making compost (hot thermal, sheet composting, leaf mold, and vermicompost). We will also discuss the …

With the Tiruchi Corporation asking hotels, restaurants and marriage halls to set up solid waste management systems to process and dispose biodegradable waste at source, Hotel Sangam here has installed a machine to compost its wet waste. Link: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/machine-installed-in-tiruchi-hotel-to-compost-waste/article26066859.ece