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“Now I feel I’m more like a waste hauler than a visionary composter,” said New Haven’s pioneering organic-scraps-repurposer and eco-idealist Domingo…

Food waste creates costly greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling it can help.

Food waste creates costly greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling it can help.

As states weigh trash-to-energy facilities, neighborhoods in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, have learned from each other to fight for environmental justice with solutions to a growing organic waste management problem. The strategy in New Haven, Connecticut, is reducing trash that ends up in landfills and incinerators.

In an effort to promote the importance of composting, the Peels & Wheels Composting...

CT Compost Alliance to Increase Composting Efforts in Connecticut Written by CT Deep The CT Compost Alliance, a newly formed group of compost enthusiasts representing a variety of stakeholder organizations, has shared a series of resources, including recorded webinars, videos, and a new listserv to ensure that current and future composters have the opportunity to continue to learn, network and engage. Connecticut is facing a waste crisis, as some of the traditional options for dispos...

Best of 2020: Minority businesses: Wounded by COVID, but key to inclusive revival This story was originally published on December 7, 2020. Tia Woods had been the coordinator of a dance program. It closed but left her with space in East Hartford. She had a business idea: Woods, who is Black, knew many minority artisans needed space to show and sell their products. So in February 2019, she created what she called a “modern consignment boutique” called “ITS the Room,” a kind of mini-mall w...