Puma reveals plans for compostable sports clothes

German sports clothing manufacturer Puma is developing biodegradable products, the company's CEO has revealed. The sports clothes can be recycled or thrown on a compost heap.

Charlotte airport buys worms for $1.1 million | WCNC.com Charlotte

The creepy crawlies are part of a new $1.1 million composting system that will open in February.

Odor complaints abound for Seattle's composter

A year after the city of Seattle required residents to recycle food scraps, the results have been impressive: in 2010, the city's contractor diverted 90,000 tons of Seattleites' banana peels, chicken bones and weeds out of landfills and converted that waste into rich compost prized in gardens.

Gardening: Lessons in composting: In the end, your plants will thank you | jacksonville.com

I compost, and so should you. It's cheaper than buying fertilizer, and your garden will thank you.

Swedish green-burial firm to turn frozen corpses in compost

A posthumous bath in liquid nitrogen pioneered by an eco-minded Swedish entrepreneur may be the key to the world's first completely ecological burial alternative, the Local's Karen Holst discovers.