4. Ready-made plastic compost bin: Often made from recycled plastic, a variety of designs can be found at garden centers and by mail-order, ranging from $90 to more than $200. Advantages: Tidy.

Plus, it’s hands down the easiest and most straightforward compost bin on the market: It collapses and expands for easy set-up and take down, and its plastic construction is incredibly durable.

Right now your compost bin might be full of vegetable peelings and old teabags but in the future it could be full of plastic waste too. This is after researchers discovered a new type of ...

The carton won't leak - it's waxed - so it's OK to keep on the kitchen counter but will break down at the compost facility. Do not use this method if the milk carton has a non-compostable plastic ...

Getting a countertop compost bin can help you turn food waste into nutrient-rich compost quickly and easily. These are the best countertop composters in 2022.

The oblong pail is intended as a way station between kitchen and curbside, a convenience for the new food composting system that started this fall.

I loathe buying anything made from plastic. Are there plastic-free compost bins? Kelly of London, Ontario I completely understand. You’re on a plastic diet. And of all the diets – Atkins ...

Most certified "home-compostable" plastics do not fully break down in home compost bins, a citizen science project finds.

I’m participating in the Compost Pilot Program and I don’t understand why I can’t compost more paper waste like coffee cups and ice cream containers. Isn’t that just wax and paper? Rachel ...

Most people know by now that the disposable plastic used for take-out food is an environmental hazard. Containers, cups, utensils, straws — very little of it gets recycled and very much of it ...