A law in Washington state makes it the first state to legalize human composting, and now the first facility is being built.

Dyper, maker of biodegradable disposable bamboo diapers, now offers a composting service that lets you ship off your baby's diapers in a box for recycling.

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Aldi grocery CEO Giles Huxley informed his suppliers that all products must come in 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaing.

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A method and processes to solubilize and transform phosphorus contents of rock phosphate (RP) into bio-organo-phosphate (BOP) fertilizer have been developed and integrated. The methods include collecting and sorting of organic wastes; blending with RP; subjecting the blend to biocomposting; collection, isolation, selection and growth optimization of consortia of efficient phosphorus solubilizing microorganisms (PSM) and novel plant growth regulating microorganisms (PGRM); where in PSM produce organic acids and other organic compounds using compost substrate at mesophillic stage, whereas the organic acids released during composting also act in synergism of PSM, thus forming a carbon rich acidic culture resulting in the solubilization of rock phosphate.

We are all doing the right thing putting our compost and garden waste in the green bin, right? Well, yes, but that is only the start of a story that can end in disaster.

As enthusiasm for zero waste grows and Canberra holds its first festival on the subject, a community of composters is working towards making landfill a thing of the past.

How to make compost and (help) save the world.

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Alarmed by the amount of rubbish they were generating by just drinking coffee and eating cup noodles, two former garments entrepreneurs decided it was time to find an eco-friendly alternative to all the plastic packaging that ends up in landfills globally.George Chen Dah-ren and Vivian Chang first approached material scientists in Hong Kong and mainland China, and were in 2013 pointed in the direction of Alexander Bismarck, then a Materials Science professor at Imperial College London. The…

Being at home this long, or really, just in one place for this long, has led me to see how much waste I produce. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot more than I thought. But I’m not here to shame anyone, in fact, quite the opposite. I think there are plenty of small ways we can cut down our carbon footprint, from driving less (check), to not using a washing machine or dryer (also, sadly, check), but gardening is what I’ve been doing, and is something that I’d recommend everyone give a shot now that we all have a little more times on our hands.

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Composting is a natural way to recycle all of the organic materials in your house through decomposition. Compost can improve your soil’s water retention, which saves you money on your water bills, and helps keep excess garbage out of landfills, too. To get started you need two things. The first is a compost bin for your kitchen. This is great whether you want to start a compost at home or if you have a compost center you can bring them to. You want something sleek, designy, yet simple because after all, it’s really just a trash can. This is an excellent one.

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Cumbria Police have apologised for an "ill-judged" tweet that suggested people should not buy plants or compost during the coronavirus lockdown.

Step 1: The idea of a car that runs on compost. Step 2: Implementation of a car that runs on compost. We're half done.

Straight outta Humboldt, this app is a great intro to the "art and craft" of brewing your own compost tea for boosting microbial activity in the soil and improving yields.

In a bid to meet the city's goal of recycling 60% of its waste by 2015, Seattle is turning its sights on food scraps that end up in the trash.

Taking responsibility for their own waste, ETSY team members haul biodegradable trash to their local community farm by cargo bike.

The classic daily newspaper box gets updated by a New York artist.

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

Composting toilets have a lot of benefits. But can they really help save hippos?

The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets

Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that

It's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of a body than burning or burying.

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We were at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto this weekend, but soon there might be a whole spinoff, "Compost Toilet Life Show" , there were so many new products in the alternative toilet world. One that surprised us was the Finnish Biolan- we are used to

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

For consumers, biodegradable and compostable products have mostly been a bust. Still, it is good news that the swiss company Freitag has succeeded making jeans that will break down on commercial compost piles.

TreeHugger isn't the only place to sing the virtues of the modern composting toilet. But Fox News? Really?

We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.

Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.

A look at what has changed, and how much has actually stayed the same.

It's about time that we stopped wasting drinking water to flush away our waste; Allison Bailes did it and isn't complaining.

This simple Australian design has some interesting features and benefits.

Urine for a surprise as Alex Wilson concludes that urine collection beats composting. I was, because they are not mutually exclusive.

Put your poop to work; it's fuel for a biological furnace.

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.

Here's the drill on the Earth Drill toilet.

Here's the hot poop on a toilet with a conveyor belt to move the stuff out of sight, out of mind.

The big Glastonbury music festival is getting new composting loos

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

If you’re to take composting to the next level, here’s a list of some less-common items that can also get tossed in your composting bin or tumbler.

Until it can be composted in my own backyard, I'm not getting excited.

The strange story of a fight against composting laws, by a community that loves composting

Shipping boxes of dirty diapers across the country seems inefficient and unnecessary.

Another great example of compost poetry that celebrates the magic in our muck.

Recycling waste and delivering a safe nutrient-rich fertilizer for food production

Based on IWMI’s experience, this training manual has been compiled for plant managers and trainers to help ensure that staff involved in FS treatment and production, and application of an FS-based co-compost adopt best practices in all processes involved.

Unfortunately, the world doesn’t have a constant quantity of problems, and while governments and most private businesses are focused on tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, companies like Genecis Bioindustries are working on technologies to solve another major problem: climate change. For over a decade, sustainability advocates and entrepreneurs have been searching for a way to […]

Jasmine Kosach, 31, from Tasmania, lives with her husband Ben and seven young children in an off-grid shack after growing up with an appreciation for all things nature.

A citizen’s probe unearths a racket in which toxic burnt waste is sold to farmers in the garb of vermicompost; what’s more, the packaging indicates involvement of a composting firm under the government. Shree D N and Akshatha M report from Bengaluru.

In a modern city set up, the closest you can be to nature is in your very own garden. If you are the one whose garden is more important than the actual house and you maintain quite an impressive veggie patch