Composting

Oh, rats: A composting question

By adamg - 3/2/24 - 11:14 am

Swachter writes:

I love the questions that living in Somerville brings up. Questions like, “Are squashed rats compostable?”

Smashing pumpkins at English High this Saturday

By adamg - 11/1/23 - 12:33 pm

So many pumpkins, but here's some time to get rid of them in a more environmentally friendly way: The city of Boston Zero Waste team, Boston Green Academy, the South Street Youth Center and Mothers Out Front will hold a pumpkin-smashing and composting event at the English High School track, 144 McBride St. in Jamaica Plain, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. this Saturday. Read more.

Boston expanding curbside food-waste pickup program

By adamg - 4/21/23 - 4:23 pm

The mayor's office announced today that Boston will triple the number of households from which it will pick up food waste once a week from the current 10,000 to 30,000, starting in July. Read more.

With recycling costs spiraling out of control, Boston councilor says it's finally time to try city curbside composting

By adamg - 4/12/19 - 11:25 am

As he does pretty much every year, City Councilor Matt O'Malley (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) has formally asked the city to begin a pilot program to collect people's discarded coffee grounds and other foods to turn into compost. But this year is different, because the costs of dealing with recyclable materials is going through the roof, O'Malley says. Read more.

You'll probably only feel weird bringing garbage to the farmers' market that first time

By adamg - 8/8/13 - 2:56 pm

The mayor's office today announced pilot composting programs in which residents can bring certain types of food scraps and other organic matter to a local farmers' market for, well, composting.

For the three-month duration of this program, full-service waste hauler Renewable Waste Solutions will donate supplies and hauling services for transport to Rocky Hill Farm in Saugus, Massachusetts, where the collected scraps will be transformed into fertile soil for use in commercial and personal farming and gardening projects.