Santa Maria hosted its fourth annual Pumpkin Smashing event today at Rotary Centennial Park. Composting pumpkins after Halloween helps reduce waste and lowers greenhouse gas emissions.

Dear Eartha, Halloween is my favorite holiday, but I can’t help wondering how all those costumes, decorations and (let’s be honest) mushy pumpkins add up in the waste department. What’s the best way ...

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Every year, more than a billion pounds of pumpkins end up in U.S. landfills after Halloween, releasing methane as they ...

If you’re carving a jack-o’-lantern, don’t throw away the skin or innards — every part is edible.

Barbara Romero told sanitation employees in an email on Monday that she will leave at the end of the year. She did not say ...

The couple even bring their children along to work events so they can feel they have earned their treats WITH assets worth £10,000,000 and a staggering 35 homes, Katie and Danny Bloomfield are poised ...

Refuse workers have raged at the "deplorable and disgusting" sights left outside people's homes in a major UK city. The video showed rubbish strewn across the back court, with bags split open and ...

CAMBRIDGE — His furniture is now gone, as are his prized neckties and most everything else possessed by the eminent music critic Richard Dyer, who died last September at 82. One particularly notable ...

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For decades, New York sidewalks were awash in piled-up black plastic rubbish bags, some of which doubled as housing projects for the city’s other inhabitants. “I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York ...