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"...and Rebecca Maze, a Travis County master gardener, talks composting at 3:20. Bring the whole fam so you’ll have..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Miyazaki, Hot Boys, Jane Austen Improv, and More Recommended Events

The weekend is looking ... a little weird

"...friends, families and neighbors. They share information about recycling, composting, repurposing and repairing.” Sounds like a great way to..."

July 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

A Saucy, Seven-Course Musical at Boggy Creek Farm

Jade Fusco’s activist interactive recruited members of Ley Line, BluMoon, and more

"...the farm at an oak tree, irrigation well, and composting station. Via spoken word or song, the crew relayed..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Austin Resource Recovery Charts a New Course to Achieving Zero Waste

A quick look at the city’s new Comprehensive Plan

"...we create, reusing items when possible and recycling and composting properly at home and at work,” Austin Resource Recovery..."

Nov. 7, 2023 News Post by Hannah Rossi

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

Chefs, Researchers, and Activists Write the Climate Change Cookbook

Redefining what sustainable really means at SXSW

"...founder and director of Baltimore Compost Collective, a community-based composting program that trains youth in small-scale composting. Kids learn..."

March 11, 2022 Features Feature by Melanie Haupt

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

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...in February, Austin Resource Recovery will expand the Curbside Composting Collection Program to 55,000 new households in the program's..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature

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

The Green Movement

"...one of those multifloored apartment buildings you mentioned,‭ ‬Austin’s composting initiative is unavailable to me.‭ ‬Especially in the neighborhoods..."

April 4, 2020 Postmarks

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

California Knows How to Compost

"...To Lina Fisher, With regard to citywide composting, you might want to look at what Sacramento, Calif.,..."

Feb. 24, 2020 Postmarks

Follow That Plastic!

"...a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin’s Composting Program,” Feb. 21] last week about how to compost..."

Feb. 24, 2020 Postmarks

Join the Garden

"...a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin’s Composting Program”] was a good first step in addressing our..."

Feb. 24, 2020 Postmarks

This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: The Dirt on Compost

How and why to do it... and what can go wrong

"...this week to discuss Lina's cover story about how composting fits into the city's goal of zero waste by..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Post

A Banana Peel, a Diaper, and a Plastic Bag Walk Into Austin's Composting Program

How can a whole city compost, is it working, and can we reach zero waste by 2040?

"...3:30pm. This year, curbside collection of organic waste for composting expands to the entire city of Austin, serving 200,000..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

We Have an Issue: The Grubby Side of Composting

Inside this week’s cover story about where our food waste goes to die ... and live again

"...fell through in reporting this week's cover story about composting. It began with a seemingly straightforward assignment from Food..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Dirt on Grubs and Composting

Are black soldier flies the hot new sustainable fuel?

"...came after two years of HausBar's raising, slaughtering, and composting the remains of chickens without incident, which was at..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

A Decade of Action Toward a Zero-Waste City

How far along are we?

"...characterization study that showed the potential impact of curbside composting; ARR found that almost everything Austinites were sending to..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

What Goes in Your Compost Bin in Austin

Pizza boxes? OK. Liquids? No thank you.

"...The city of Austin's residential composting program collects organic material – food scraps, yard trimmings,..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature

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

Vegan Magazine Founder Summer Burton Talks Reason and Queso

Former Buzzfeed exec and Texas native is obsessed with animals

"...incentivized conditions, which is why the city has a composting program for citizens, too. Simply attend a composting class..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

"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

Public Notice: Total Garbage

Good news and bad news about your waste stream

"...announced this week that they'll be expanding their Curbside Composting Collection Program to an additional 53,000 households beginning in..."

July 12, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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