compost
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These include keeping soil permanently covered, applying compost, using more diverse crop rotations and reducing the use of mineral fertilizers and pesticides.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Lu-An" has some 2,000 plastic cylinders of soil and compost to give 100 watts of output, enough to power a rice cooker and other appliances.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Local growers then take that compost, grow food that goes back to the cafes, cafes serve it, waste comes back to us and we turn it back into compost," said Steph.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The majority of their compost users are people growing food to sell "in the Machynlleth markets, to sell in the local whole food shop, to sell directly to local restaurants".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Sometimes you’re on laundry, other seasons you’re assigned to dish duty in the kitchen or compost shoveling.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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First Ave. The unassuming brick-clad structure generates its own power, collects and treats its own water, and composts its waste.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
All the manure they produce during the winter is spread out on the fields, where it composts back into the soil.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2021
The brand also composts its organic waste and will soon offer fully biodegradable packaging.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2020
A manure-based system composts animal wastes and returns it to the land.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2019
Those who have practiced making peat composts with their yard, stable, and pen manure, almost invariably find them highly satisfactory in use, especially upon light soils.
From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Samuel W. (Samuel William) Johnson
The company has so far composted around 60 bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
At first, he said, it was hard to persuade people to live out the same wish of being composted that he’d held for so many years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
The ultimate solution to Keurig's plastic footprint, she said, is a product that eliminates "the need to collect anything back from customers," like a fiber-based pod that can be composted along with the grounds.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024
In the past few years, more plastic has been going to incinerators and less food waste - which councils are now sending to anaerobic digesters or to be composted.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
I managed to avoid the details of manure and grubs and composted guts.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Further funding has allowed them to focus on research and development and set up a composting school to help other projects in other communities get going.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Signed into law in 2016, the state’s composting bill mandated a gradual increase in the amount of organic waste that must be diverted away from landfills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Helou said Blumenfield’s motion completes the loop by keeping food waste close to home, creating more local composting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transporting waste outside of the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
"Until we went to a human composting facility."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
“You could still write about the neighborhood composting program for your college application essay,” I offer.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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