Compost piles work due to a careful balance between green and brown material. Knowing exactly what those materials are helps ...

Who really wants to keep smelly food scraps in a fly-attracting bucket in their kitchen? That question is what led Gail Loos, a full-time marketer and mother of two, to develop the GreenCycler ...

Vermeer has introduced the LS3600TX low speed shredder, its latest innovation for the recycling industry. The single-shaft ...

Inside my house, the shredder is the equivalent of the compost bin outdoors, based on how much it is put to work. I shred everything. In fact, I derive great pleasure from it. If you think that sounds ...

I am thinking of buying a chipper/shredder. Will these things chip/shred the grasses that I will cut back next month? And are the chopped-up grasses and pruning clippings good to put in the beds or ...

Q: I have read with great interest and desperation your writings on composting. From my own experience, I concur with your advice that the organic material needs to be no more than 1/2 inch in size. I ...

Those leaves are then often raked up and put on the curbside to be collected with the trash. Please, don’t do that. They are a valuable form of organic matter that can be put to use in your landscape.

Every year I have some wintertime yard chores to do, which includes pruning a few branches from the numerous trees on my half-acre property. Most of the time it consists of minor pruning of a few ...

A $383,990 Recycling Development and Implementation grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection will help the Mountain Top Council of Governments move into phase 2 of its compost ...