Local Street Sweeping Service Slows to a Crawl

The creek-friendly effort sees a staffing shortage

"...our resources to core services like trash, recycling, and composting collection."..."

July 7, 2023 News Feature by John Anderson

Opinion: The Case Against Disposable Food Ware

Austinites should be a part of the solution and eliminate plastic, single-use items from the waste stream

"...other small changes. Most people believe that recycling and composting are the answers to the single-use problem, but the..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Jessica Fleming

Eat Trash, Save the Planet

Fighting food waste locally via Too Good to Go

"...becomes methane gas, which is why Austin offers citywide composting. By providing cans and curbside pickup, the city can..."

April 21, 2023 Food Feature by A. Richmond

Attending Field Guide Festival

Field Guide Festival gathers together chefs, farmers, and foodies to consider the future of food

"...mental health; a pop-up urban farm with beekeeping and composting demonstrations; local sips and grazing bites from farmer-chef partnerships;..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Food Feature by Kimberley Jones

Booze News & Reviews

Seven Things to Know In the World of Spirits

"...2. MEZCAL AMARÁS So – what else is like..."

April 15, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Low-Waste Cooking Is Possible With a Few Small Daily Changes

Waste less, save more

"...into the trash greatly contributes to greenhouse gases, and composting is an easy way to curb that. For those..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Zero Waste, Black-Owned Startup Nurtures Community One Plant at a Time

Black Lives Veggies plants seeds of change

"...and Kasey Diffie of neighboring Joe's Organics, a food composting company, also joined forces. For $25, the company can..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Nine Austin Juice Bars to Boost Your Immunity

You really can’t go wrong with fresh fruit and vegetables

"...committed to working with local farms and purveyors and composting all of its excess produce. (No cash; card only.)..."

March 10, 2020 Food Post by Zelly Martin

Council Tries to Keep City's Trash Out of Hated Landfill

Waste not, what now?

"...and adequately plan for the different trash, recycling and composting needs of all City facilities," the spokesperson wrote in..."

Feb. 28, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Meeting the City's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets In Three Charts

Are we there yet?

"...shifts toward renewable energy and better resource recovery (recycling, composting, etc.) have helped make Austin one of a handful..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

"Historic" Spending on Homelessness in New City Budget

FY 2020 plan calls for maximum tax rate to beat revenue caps

"...“creative spaces,” Vision Zero, police oversight, equity mini-grants, curbside composting, climate resilience, swimming pools, DNA evidence processing, and much..."

Aug. 5, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Headlines

"...My House? Austin Resource Recovery will expand its composting service to 53,000 additional households, added to the 95,000..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature

Luv Doc: Not Mellow at All

There is an unwritten social contract to indoor plumbing

"...has spent more than a few minutes on a composting toilet on a hot day in August in Texas..."

April 19, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Central Market Announces Curbside Service at Their Original Austin Store Location

And other not-to-be-missed local food news bites

"...local farms and purveyors to source seasonal ingredients and composting all of its excess produce and giving it back..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Sustainable Food Center’s Farm to Plate Dinner

Support local food and have a blast doing it

"...country (no easy feat). And the mansion’s staff utilizes composting, solar panels, and rainwater to do things because beauty..."

May 9, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Hunkered Down in Troxclair’s Lair

City Council’s lone conservative preaches to her choir

"...member couldn't help herself: With its taxes, bag bans, composting, and burdensome water restrictions, Austin has quickly become even..."

Oct. 13, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

City Compost Program Expands

38,000 new households will be composting this fall

"...Recovery Program will add 38,000 households to its Curbside Composting Collection Program...."

Aug. 2, 2017 News Post by Joseph Caterine

So You’re Thinking of Keeping Chickens

Tips for finding the perfect flock

"...makes them highly trainable. As part of a backyard composting program, chickens keep food waste out of landfills and..."

June 30, 2017 Food Feature by Ashley Moreno

Council: Austin, Can You Spare $7 million?

CodeNEXT, budget, and the long shadow of the state

"...• Composting, By Gosh: A much delayed contract with Organics “By..."

June 26, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Council: Take a Deep Breath

Final spring session enters July break on a run

"...and 31 concern large service contracts – for organic composting and tree-trimming, respectively – that were postponed earlier for..."

June 23, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Confessions of a Cheapskate Posing as an Environmentalist

Mother Earth better have my money

"...off without a financial incentive? Solar panels, hybrid cars, composting, energy saving appliances: All save you money. I'll be..."

April 21, 2017 Features Feature by James Renovitch

Designing a Smarter City

New weeklong event celebrates city's creative community

"...the convention center's web presence, and residents' recycling and composting habits. Thu., Nov. 10, 3-5pm; City Hall, 301 W...."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

City Council Preview: Juggling Act to Include Budget, Transportation Bond

Council agenda occupied by a handful of pressing subjects

"...of biosolids (at Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Plant) and composting materials ($20 million over potentially 10 years). That's a..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

What a Concept!

Still no Grove PUD, but plenty more shit for Council to shovel

"...reuse of biosolids (at Hornsby Bend Management Plant) and composting materials ($20 million in all, over potentially 10 years)...."

Aug. 10, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Making Reuse Mainstream

Austin needs a combo of government leadership, corporate responsibility, and individual commitment to meet reuse benchmarks

"...redesign and waste reduction, and ahead of recycling and composting...."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Public Notice: Chaos Reigns!

City needs your help now!

"...on the meetings, the survey, recycling tips, and home composting programs, visit www.austinrecycles.com...."

Jan. 29, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Cemetery Master Plan Inches Closer to Life

Boards & commissions pass graveyard draft

"...added specific language about the use of mulch and composting during dry periods, while the Environmental Board wanted a..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: The Dog That Didn't Bark

Will property taxes in Texas ever make sense?

"...engineers who will have to implement new organics diversion (composting) requirements that affect grocery stores and restaurants starting next..."

June 5, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice

So much to do, so much Austin

"...demos on building raised beds and setting up home composting systems. There's a fairly detailed regimen for the soil..."

March 27, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Waste Not

Local groups work to "rescue" food from loss and landfills

"...of desirability, where surplus food should go. ("Soil" means composting.) The EPA guidelines also include, at the top, source..."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

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