compost

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

We have created compost piles, where beetle larvae often feed.

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

It take about a year to turn it into compost, which Steph said had just won an award for its quality.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Our hardest task is teaching people to count on a future: to plant citrus trees, and compost their wastes for fertilizer.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

But if suitable composts and application methods were aligned with target crops and growth environments, crop yields can be increased and organic carbon in soils replenished.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2023

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

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

The whole art of forming composts and dunghills, for the purposes of agriculture, consists in the proper application of this admixture.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier

Seasonal flowers are brought in, and when they die, composted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

The company has so far composted around 60 bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

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

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

Blumenfield’s initiative directs the Bureau of Sanitation to develop a plan for expanding local composting across the city.

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 visited Return Home, south of Seattle in Washington state, the world's first large-scale 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