Sharbel Eid News Today

More and more cities are implementing food scrap compost programs to reduce landfill methane emissions and help meet climate change targets.

If you put food scraps into a green bin with your yard waste, are you truly helping the planet? For LA residents, the answer is definitely yes.

Los Angeles is moving ahead with a program to separate food waste from trash, an effort to spare landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

California became the second state in the nation to make large-scale composting required by law. It went into effect in January and requires all cities and counties across the state to divert food and other organic waste from landfills.

For Teresa Leong and others, composting has become a pathway to growing food, environmentalism and seeing the world in a new way.

Long considered a threat to ocean floors, the purple urchin has found salvation by creeping into kitchens in Los Angeles.

A new California law requires residents to separate organic materials from other trash. Here's what you need to know.