After years of studying and discussing the idea of launching a curbside composting program, D.C. officials finally began rolling out a pilot program this month. Roughly 9,000 households will be ...

If you’ve ever seen people lugging buckets of food scraps to dump at D.C.’s compost drop-off sites, you know there is a pent-up desire among District residents to recycle their food waste. Last year, ...

WASHINGTON — Think about how much food waste you produce in a day. A banana peel, an apple core, the ends of vegetables that you don’t eat. When those scraps end up in a landfill it produces methane.