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DQ News: CompostNow: The Garbage Man Picks Up and Drops Off

With CompostNow you can home compost, without composting at home. Members receive a small bin to keep in your kitchen or on your back porch. Fill it with all you organic waste. This includes all food waste, paper products, and anything else compostable.

As a CompostNow member, you are entitled to receive the final results of your composting efforts. Here’s the deal, on average composting yields about %50 of the original weight of waste. In other words, if they’ve collected 100 lbs of waste from you, you are entitled to have up to 50 lbs of nutrient-rich soil delivered right to your doorstep.

CompostNow costs $25 for weekly pickups and is only available in Raleigh, North Carolina. Could this work in your community?

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Miracle Grow Targets Medical Marijuana

WSJ: Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has long sold weed killer. Now, it’s hoping to help people grow killer weed. In an unlikely move for the head of a major company, Scotts Chief Executive Jim Hagedorn said he is exploring targeting medical marijuana as wel

Zoo Sells Elephant Dung as Fertilizer

The Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic is now selling elephant dung to their visitors as an unusual souvenir that can also be used to fertilize garden plants: “I believe that garden owners will appreciate our new item on sale,” zoo director Miro

Will Agritourism Save Family Farms?

NY Times: For all the talk about sustainable agriculture, most small farms are not self-sustaining in a very basic sense: they can’t make ends meet financially without relying on income from jobs off the farm. But increasingly farmers are eking more money

Business Gets Upcycled

You don’t need to be Picasso to be an artist. At times, you don’t even need paint and a brush. Donovan Peterson is an artist who uses existing, worn out items to make new things. The process is also known as upcycling. “At one point I ju

GreenBottle Goes Wine

First it was the milk bottle that went green, now the same company is turning to paper for wine bottles! The first question that I’m sure immediately comes to everyone’s mind is how a paper bottle full of wine doesn’t just turn to mush moments after being