Early Saturday morning, docked boats floated calmly on still waters at the Berkeley Marina, while across the street, men, women and children of all ages quickly shoveled huge piles of what they call ...

MONCKS CORNER — Berkeley County’s waste management overhaul took another step forward Thursday when McGill Environmental Systems announced plans to build an industrial-scale composting operation at ...

Berkeley schools are making a renewed commitment to recycling and composting after efforts slacked off over the past five years. This year, a local nonprofit, Green Schools Initiative, has worked with ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - In advance of Thanksgiving, city of Berkeley officials are asking residents to reduce waste that goes to the landfill and adapt to a revised pickup schedule for some people. The ...

Andersen has invented a device that tracks the decomposition of compost made of human feces, a function that he says could help improve environmental health all over the world. In earthquake-ravaged ...

If you're in your first or second year at UC Berkeley, you may be completely used to having compost bins in most campus buildings and dining halls. You may have never even questioned their existence, ...

Gary Rosenberg says he is just trying to practice what city leaders preach: He is trying to practice sustainable living by using as few resources as possible. But instead of giving the Berkeley man an ...

A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch has uncovered a disarmingly simple and benign way to remove carbon dioxide from the air, holding the potential to turn the vast ...

MONCKS CORNER — A North Carolina company has picked Berkeley County as the site of its seventh organics recycling facility. McGill Environmental Systems of N.C. Inc. said today it plans to be ...