Separating food scraps from the rest of your trash may seem like a pain at first. But look at it this way: Every chicken bone, banana peel and egg shell that doesn’t wind up in a landfill benefits not ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego will start delivering green recycling bins and kitchen pails to thousands of city trash customers Wednesday as part of a comprehensive effort to comply with a new state ...

While single-use bags labeled as compostable are an alternative for plastic bags, they are not to be disposed of in the green bins used to collect compostable waste, including food scraps and yard ...

It’s that time of the week when your food waste pail is full, and you’re ready to walk your scraps out to the green-waste bin. (You are following your community’s rules about composting food scraps, ...

San Diego has completed its rollout of more than 200,000 organic waste recycling green bins to city-serviced homes to allow residents to collect food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings for ...

Residents will be able to throw away organic waste in a more environmentally friendly manner as part of the city’s Organic Waste Recycling program. Photo credit: sandiego.gov San Diego residents will ...