Juliane Crump remembers lifting the lid off her composting bucket in front of first graders. “Half went ‘Ew!’ and half went ‘Wow!’” says Crump, who’s a founding member of the Planeteers, a ...

Recently, my fellow Zero Waste Team member, Grace Smolak, and I had the wonderful opportunity to teach the preschoolers at the Bombeck Family Learning Center about composting. The Bombeck center ...

Nicholas Ward, a local filmmaker and artist, helps a group of Cordley Elementary School students sort their lunch scraps into bins for compost materials, non-compost materials and recyclables. Ward ...

Rosebank Elementary is one of several Nashville schools that partner with Compost Nashville. The kids at Rosebank get hands-on lessons on composting, along with learning to separate their trash from ...

Leona Flynt is a self-proclaimed dirt enthusiast. "I love jumping in mud," she said. So when it came time for the 7-year-old ...

In a bid to make the city more sustainable, organizations are teaching NYC's youngest civilians how to compost. WFUV's Maya Sargent spoke to two of the organizations making their way into schools ...

In many households, parents direct their children to clean their plates at the dinner table. An organization that has expanded over the past two years from its roots in Grandview Heights to about a ...

“This shows the kids, my kids at least, that recycling is not just at home.” It takes a few days for students to learn the basics about what goes in the recycling, liquids, compost and garbage bins.

Could New York City have hit on the perfect way to get more people to compost? Nagging kids. It turns out a major push is afoot in New York to get kids composting at school—or, at least, to toss their ...