University of Oldenburg's EcoPBS project seeks to develop cost-effective, biodegradable plastics from organic materials, ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diegans are recycling more than twice as much organic waste under a comprehensive new city program that has delivered more than 200,000 green waste containers and compost ...

Californians will ring in the new year with the unfurling of a groundbreaking law that will change how they dispose of their organic waste, particularly leftover food and kitchen scraps. Senate Bill ...

San Diego has completed its rollout of more than 200,000 organic waste recycling green bins to city-serviced homes to allow residents to collect food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings for ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego will start delivering green recycling bins and kitchen pails to thousands of city trash customers Wednesday as part of a comprehensive effort to comply with a new state ...

Trash never dies. Sometimes it’s not even trash. That’s the notion behind a state law that on Jan. 1 will require Californians to separate organic material from their other garbage. It’s a landmark ...

Residents in the unincorporated areas of Santa Maria and Lompoc now have to separate food waste and food-soiled paper from the rest of their trash and into their green waste containers with yard waste ...

What should I do with pet waste? Does it go with organic waste? Trash? Leave it? The Sacramento Bee’s service journalism desk has gotten a similar questions numerous times — mainly after California’s ...