Composting

Over 20,000 people on average attend Austin FC home games, and they generate about 6 tons of waste per game. After each game, staff spend hours hand-sorting the trash, recycling and compost.

If you’re looking forward to sorting through your food scraps next week, you might have to wait a little longer. While the requirement technically goes into effect Tuesday, many apartment buildings will be slow to adopt the change, if at all.

Cyril said sorting trash left something to be desired, so he's writing a computer program to help his classmates determine which bin to use.

More than half of Austin residents live in multifamily complexes, but most don’t have composting services, according to Austin Resource Recovery.

By collecting food scraps and yard waste for compost, you save them from a landfill.

Only a small fraction of plastic waste in the U.S. ends up being recycled. The Plastic Reduction Project wants to help people in Austin rely less on the plastic containers, forks, cups and bags we use once and then toss out.

Every week banana peels, coffee grounds, moldy strawberries and pizza boxes are placed in green bins and rolled out to the street as part of the city's residential composting program.

Austin City Council passed an ambitious plan in 2011 to divert most of the city's waste from landfills by 2040. Despite recycling and composting strategies, we're nowhere near where we should be.

The City of Austin is finalizing a four-year rollout of its curbside composting program, adding 55,000 homes by mid-February.

All Austin businesses with a permit to sell food are now required to divert organic waste from landfills, but some restaurant owners say they didn’t get…