If You've Got Empty Paper Bags, Don't Toss Them — They're Garden Gold In Disguise

Think twice before you toss or recycle those empty paper bags from the grocery store. There's an easy way to boost plant ...

Composting can’t become a license to waste

Why the sarcastic quotes around composting? Well, our waste isn’t becoming the black gold that helps gardens and treebeds ...
Sioux City Journal

Extension gives tips on composting yard wastes

Composting is a relatively easy, inexpensive procedure yielding valuable humus that can be returned to garden soil, or used as mulch around landscape plantings. Horticulturists with Iowa State ...
The Gazette

Curious Iowa: How is compost produced from yard waste?

Rows of compost the Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency Site 1 in southwest Cedar Rapids is seen from the top of Mount Trashmore on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. A new topsoil rule is under ...
WOKV

St. Augustine offers free backyard compost bins starting July 14

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The City of St. Augustine is opening applications for its Residential Composting Program on Monday, July 14, offering free backyard compost bins to residents of single-family ...

Firefighters work on extinguishing large composting pile fire in LaPorte County

Firefighters on Monday were in the second day of trying to put out a large burning public composting pile in LaPorte.The over ...