If you feel strongly about eating your own home-grown, organic vegetables, and want to improve your garden soil, you need to learn how to make organic compost at home. For most gardeners, the ...

Published in Nature, this work allows PLA to disintegrate in less than twenty-six weeks in a home composter. Synthesized from plant materials, polylactic acid (PLA) is a biosourced polymer highly ...

While commercial composting facilities can often handle these items, those who compost at home might wind up throwing them in the garbage. We tested our Mill’s ability to process these hard-to ...

In an effort to decrease my own carbon footprint, I've been testing the Lomi 2 Food Recycler ($449, originally $599), a smart composter that turns food waste into natural fertilizer, right from ...

Building a compost bin is a great DIY project to get kids involved. Use recycled materials like old wooden pallets or even a ...

Have you ever heard of human composting? A Utah lawmaker has introduced a bill during the current legislative session that ...

If you're like me, you aren't using a countertop composter to create a fertilizer so much as you are trying to avoid rotting food in your home. That's where the express mode comes in. This fast ...

Compost, the dark, crumbly, earthy-smelling material produced by natural decomposers, provides many benefits to gardeners and ...

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The best compost will provide all the nutrients and support needed for seeds and veg to grow and thrive, while the worst will leave you with meagre crops and feeble plants. But the only way to know if ...