Water Quality Education: Yard Waste by The Clean Water Education Partnership

How to safely burn yard waste

Preparing your yard for fall can leave you with piles of trimmings that attract insects and look unsightly—but burning yard waste can be a cost-effective way to keep your lawn

How to Dispose of Yard Waste

Are the leftovers from your latest landscaping project taking over your lawn? Learn how to get rid of yard waste on your own schedule at a low cost.

Leave the Leaves: Tips For Prepping Fall Yard Waste For Curbside Pickup

Once you've had enough of the leaves, we've got a few suggestions to make your clean-up routine a little more environmentally friendly.

How and where you can properly get rid of yard waste

You might be clearing leaves and branches out of your yard around this time of year, but make sure your brush falls into the right place.

Trash Tutorial: Turn your kitchen and yard waste into compost

I find that at this time of the year, when people are busy tending to their lawns and gardens, the idea of composting becomes quite popular.

Yard waste, period: Garbage doesn’t belong with grass, leaves, branches

People aren’t always careful when they bring grass, leaves and branches to the yard waste site.

11 facts About E-Waste

Get e-waste facts and statistics about how much electronic waste is produced in a single year. Find out what electronics are hazardous and should be recycled properly.

What to do with your holiday waste

Less is more when it comes to enjoying a greener holiday season.

How Does Your City Handle Food Waste?

Food waste is a huge problem all over the world — ...

How To Compost In Your Yard, No Bin Required

E-waste: The Nuts and Bolts of Why It Still Plagues our Landfills

Why are recycling percentages so low, and why do people dump recyclable CRTs in the river? The forces at work are more complex than it would seem.

How Modular Construction is Keeping Waste Out of U.S. Landfills

With the rise of modular construction as an affordable and efficient alternative to traditional construction, there is now a sustainable option for keeping tons of waste out of our nation’s landfills with each new build.

How Grocers and Retailers Can Reduce Food Waste

With more than $30 billion in food waste losses occurring in the commercial retail sector, what can stores do to save food from going to a landfill?

How Reducing Food Waste Could Ease Climate Change

The energy used to produce wasted food generates more than 3.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.

11 Facts About Recycling

Over 75% of waste is recyclable, but we only recycle 30% of it.

Food loss and waste facts

Every year around the globe 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted, that is a 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption.<br>Food losses represent a waste of resources used in production such as land, water, energy and inputs, increasing the green gas emissions in vain.

How food waste confuses wildlife

There's increasing evidence that piles of food waste in landfills are contributing to the decline of various animal species, as the animals eat garbage.

9 Ways to Prevent Food Waste

Buying not-so-perfect fruits and veggies, cooking “root to stalk,” changing your food storage habits and using food apps can all help limit food waste.

How to reuse and recycle your post-holiday waste

How to reuse, recycle and dispose of your holiday waste in a green way.