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Tips to Prevent Recycling the Wrong Items

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While it’s important to recycle, how you do the deed can affect the impact you have on the environment and your household budget…

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Kitchen Compost: Turning Food Scraps Into Organic Fertilizer Without the Stink

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Diverting your food scraps into kitchen compost can cut down on the waste sent to landfills while helping produce nutrient-rich fertilizer for your garden.

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NY Middle School Get Serious About Composting

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Hommocks Middle School, supported by the Town of Mamaroneck, is the first public school in New York to launch a Rocket Composter, which will remove food waste from the waste stream and reduce trucking and disposal costs to the Peekskill facility that burns Westchester’s garbage. At the same time, the Rocket Composter – made possible by a grant from the […]