Bicycle-Based Compost Collection Turns Town Toward Smarter Sanitation

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 9:32 a.m.
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Image via Star Tribune Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul, Minn.'s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready for such a program, Sonya Ewert is hopping on a 27-gear bike with a custom-made trailer and going door to door to collect compostables from residents. The bike-powered composting service is part of an

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Meet Rouge Tomate: The Restaurant with Both a Michelin Star and a Composting Room

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Published Aug. 6, 2010 at 4:14 p.m.
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Image via Green Space Today Rouge Tomate is an upscale, Michelin Star-winning restaurant situated in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But what sets it apart from the countless other restaurants that fit that exact description is a genuine dedication to achieving some bright green ideals -- there's a heavy emphasis on local foods featured on the menu items, the design standards sate the Green Restaurant Association's requirements, and, yes, they compost all biodegradable waste. Rouge Toma ...

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A Modular, Expandable Compost Bin That Can Grow Plants and Store Tools, Too

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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 3:29 a.m.
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Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants. However, if until now you haven't come across your desired shape or size, check out the Combox. This Spanish compost bin is the first of its kind that is completel ...

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Compost Awareness Week: No More Excuses, Start Your Pile

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Published May 3, 2010 at 2:03 a.m.
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Compost Awareness Week will take place May 2-8 this year. And we promise, it’s easier than you think to start composting at home today.The U.S. EPA says about 24 percent of our waste is organic material that can be composted.In fact, ...

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Cafe Tarragon opens within Future Green

Published Jan. 25, 2010 at 1:04 p.m.


A new restaurant opened in Bay View last week, but it's not one you're likely to notice unless you're looking for it. It's called Cafe Tarragon and it's inside Future Green, an organic living retail store on South Kinnickinnic Avenue.

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How to Compost Outside the Home

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Published Jan. 18, 2010 at 2:01 a.m.
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Let’s say you want to recycle organic waste but have no interest in starting a compost pile in the backyard. There’s an app for that, an environmental application known as commercial composting.Chances are you’ve contributed to ...

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San Francisco Has Compost Fever

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Published Dec. 4, 2009 at 2:02 a.m.
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The city of San Francisco announced the latest of its many statistics on recycling participation: The city’s residents and businesses have composted 620,000 tons of organic material in the past 10 years.San Francisco offers curbside ...

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Is Male Pee Better than Female Pee? The Compost Conundrum

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Published Nov. 16, 2009 at 12:49 p.m.
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Image credit: National Trust Ahh, pee—From the selective flush to the shared flush to peeing in public to peeing in the showe ...

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Halloween’s Over, Compost Your Pumpkin!

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Published Nov. 4, 2009 at 1:14 p.m.

Halloween has come and gone, and you're probably ready to get out the Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations. But what to do with the jack-o-lantern that has lit up your balcony for the last week?One popular option is compost, as pumpkins are considered organic waste like any other fruit or vegetable.[caption ...

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Recycled Freitag Bags Become Compost Art During Vienna Design Week

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Published Oct. 7, 2009 at 1:54 p.m.
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Image: Walking Chair Gallery Freitag bags are a modern eco classic. Swiss brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag make their slick bags, wallets, iPhone cases, and other accessories from discarded tarps, the type used by long-distance freight trucks in Europe. Even their Zurich store is made from shipping containers ...

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