The best compost bin is the one you’ll actually use. I tried two popular styles and have a clear favorite. Barrel-style compost bins (left) make tumbling your compost easier, while box-style bins ...

They actually look good!

The generous proportions of this bin are conducive to a hot heat and the compost rots quickly when the bins are full. It's easy to access the ready compost, just dismantle the relevant side and then ...

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...

You might dump your kitchen scraps into the plastic composter at the back corner of the yard and forget about them, but those compost bins are often an inefficient way to reduce food scraps into ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) New Yorkers have been through a lot over the past couple of ...

The promise is simple. A small backyard setup is supposed to transform all sorts of kitchen waste into a nutrient-dense compost, a material so prized by gardeners that they gave it the nickname “black ...