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Curbside Composting Gains Steam in Portland, Maine

Sable Sanborn and Tyler Frank started Garbage to Garden, a nonprofit curbside composting program that already boasts more than 400 subscribers.

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How the Greenest Cities in the World Clean Up Their Trash

More trash means more money wasted and more resources used up. Here are a few ways to clean up a waste stream.

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'Greening' the Disposable Coffee Cup: The Value of Simple Fixes

No matter how sustainable options are out there, there’s little chance the number of disposable cups sold will dwindle to zero.

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How Heat-Loving Fungi Could Cook Up Better Biofuels

Fungi that live in 150-degree compost piles love heat, are good at breaking plants down, and could help make biofuels more efficiently.

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House Republicans Bring Styrofoam Waste Back Into the Capitol Coffee Shop

But their waste is only a little worse than the Democrat waste it's replacing.

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A Compostable Plastic

Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a plastic that can be composed at home and could be used for all sorts of food packaging....