STAMFORD — The Katrina Mygatt Recycling Center was bustling Tuesday as residents parked their cars and dropped off cardboard boxes, books, furniture and other items at the facility on Magee Avenue. A ...

In the course of a week, my kitchen produces a shocking quantity of what we might think of as edible trash: apple peels, garlic nubs, a bit of gristle from a steak, Dorito dust, tea bags, the ...