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
Their larvae, called grubs, often feast on the organic matter in compost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Glinting in the night, halfway up a hill in Japan, the greenhouse-like "Ku-An" test lab is lit by electricity harnessed from 1,500 wooden boxes of soil and compost.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Steph Robinson and ffin Jordao of Criw Compostio collect food waste from cafes and businesses who pay them and convert it into peat-free compost, which is then used by the community.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Joel will spread the compost on his pastures.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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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
"There are some legal concerns about certain types of composts being practiced on park land," he said, in response to a question by Council Member Peter Koo about outside composting.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2021
The brand also composts its organic waste and will soon offer fully biodegradable packaging.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2020
While it uses solar power and composts its plant waste on site, it cannot pay more for packaging.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2018
Their estimation in composts is of great interest, though troublesome to execute. 7th.
From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Samuel W. (Samuel William) Johnson
Her company has raised $25 million and composted more than 600 bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
The workshop leaders discussed the possibility of creating a “sacrificial zone,” potentially under trees, where materials such as lead-laced plants are composted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 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 explained to Willie that the corn had grown in a deep bed of composted chicken manure.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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The state’s composting law has proved challenging on several fronts.
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
Hughes and his colleague Chris Cooper-Hayes, who has a professional background in landscaping, have founded Eterrna, a venture they hope could become the very first to offer human composting in the UK.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
"Until we went to a human composting facility."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Buried clear to their butts in composting cow manure, the pigaerators were a bobbing sea of wriggling hams and corkscrew tails.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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