San Diego has completed its rollout of more than 200,000 organic waste recycling green bins to city-serviced homes to allow residents to collect food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings for ...

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Compost at home? Don’t I have to send all my kitchen scraps to the curb in my green waste bin? Nope! They don’t ALL have to go into your green bin. They just can’t go into the landfill, according to ...

SAN DIEGO — The buzz on the new green organic waste recycling bins distributed by the city is that they're attracting unwanted guests. “Insects, the flies, the maggots,” Clint Gillman has heard all ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A photo of a pizza box from Tuesday’s article about trash contamination in the compost at ...