A global study has found that adding biochar to organic waste composting can significantly reduce emissions of potent greenhouse gases, offering a promising pathway for sustainable waste recycling and ...

What do corncobs and tomato peels have to do with electronics? They both can be used to salvage valuable rare earth elements, like neodymium, from electronic waste. Penn State researchers used micro- ...

Bokashi, fermented organic matter, has been used for years in Korean and Japanese natural farming. An important ingredient in making bokashi is EM-1. This collection of micronutrients, developed in ...

When contacted a city corporation official told TNIE that of the 2.30 lakh cubic metres earmarked for bio-mining, 1.95 lakh cubic metres of waste have been bio-mined. THANJAVUR: The Rs 14.9-crore ...

Composting is all about reducing waste and reusing existing resources, so of course, when conceptualizing a device to help individuals compost, the same principles had to be applied. And applied they ...

For all our environmental woes, the U.S. is making progress in one exciting area: The word “compost” is becoming a household term, while more and more cities are starting to implement wide-scale ...

The ICAR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) in Jankipuram has committed to becoming a zero-waste campus by converting all its organic waste into compost. A newly installed bio-composting machine ...

"I know these are meant for commercial composting facilities, but I wanted to see how it would compost in my little home setup." ...