Just weeks after NYC started enforcing its new compost rules​, officials say they are pausing some of the fines.

A record-breaking 3.8 million pounds of compost was collected in the second week of a new recycling mandate — a number so ...

Bad Compost Smell If you detect a smell of ammonia or rotting, you might be keeping the pile too wet. Another issue could be ...

“One of the things that’s associated with composting is rats and raccoons, and compost gets a bad rep for that,” said Bonhotal. “And that’s because a lot of times people will think that ...

Alternatively, if your compost is smelling bad, Enfield suggests adding more brown materials to your mixture in order to better balance it, and turning it to add more oxygen. How do you prevent ...

The labor costs of picking up items door to door is high, but the monetary return of compost isn’t. This is a case where dollar value is an bad measuring stick for social value, no matter what ...

“Not that this is bad — smells like money to me — but if you go to the other side, it smells very earthy.” Bill Camarillo, founder and CEO of Agromin, at one of his company’s compost ...