When you pick up your dog’s poop, you do everyone a favor, but if you want to do the environment a favor as well you’ll need to use the right poop bag. A regular old plastic bag can pollute oceans, ...

A new report projects that moving toward a zero-waste economy could create 531,000 jobs in California. Stanislaus County ...

As a responsible dog owner, you know it’s important to pick up your dog’s poop. But what happens after that? Trapped in a plastic bag that can take 1,000 years to decompose, your dog’s poop might ...

In 2022, California passed a law requiring that food waste be kept out of landfills. Instead, it had to be composted, donated, or turned into fuel. Two years later, LAist Climate Emergency Reporter ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. In my effort to understand why the city of San Diego doesn’t accept bags marketed as ...

Boulder recently began a new subscription-based “Green Bag Giveaway” program to provide businesses with a free supply of compostable garbage bin liners each month for a year. The city recognized the ...

That means that it will be mandatory for residents of those boroughs to separate their organic waste from their regular trash starting on that date. The compost, which must be placed in a separate bin ...