CHELMSFORD — Reya Kannan, a junior at Chelmsford High School, was selected as the winner of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge in Massachusetts’ 3rd Congressional District.

Composting toilets are a great idea, but no one likes to think of the waste just sitting there and slowly … fermenting. A new eco-friendly toilet gets around that problem by using mushrooms to ...

Long Beach Community Compost, a primarily volunteer-run organization with a mission to transform waste into soil, is hoping to raise some money to support its community work and programming. Since it ...

Stacks of old bricks against an outdoor plastered wall. - Fotandy/Getty Images Composting is one of the best things you can do for your garden, as well as the planet. Not only does it reduce waste, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. maggots in food waste - Fevziie/Shutterstock Composting as a garden owner is almost a no-brainer. There are so many benefits of ...

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 ...

“When people see the composting process up close—when they hold the finished product in their hands—they’re far more likely to separate their food scraps at home.” A May 2024 rally outside City Hall ...

Cynthia Barnes has been covering travel, lifestyle, and food and drink for 20 years. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Toronto Star, the Discoverer, National Geographic and AAA, among ...

There’s a yardstick among gardeners that good, rich soil with lots of actively decaying organic matter in it should have about a dozen or more earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) in each cubic foot. But ...

Learn how to get started with your first compost bin in this straightforward video. Composting is a simple and effective way to create nutrient-rich soil for your garden. Senate Democrats block ...