A Lanarkshire recycling facility is to turn leftover Christmas sprouts into compost and eventually electricity.

Fire officers remain at the scene of an overnight fire at a composting factory in Derbyshire.

A Leicestershire zoo buys a machine which turns waste from its 1,000 animals into compost.

Plans to build compost sites near a Royal Horticultural Society garden lead to concerns that diseases could spread.

A firm is told to demolish a waste rendering and composting plant after breaking planning rules.

Two men caught with cannabis plants worth £225,000 after being betrayed by a huge order of compost are jailed.

A Derbyshire firm which composts tonnes of waste from Wales reject claims the journey undermines its environmental benefit.

An organic spray is to be used to reduce the smell coming from the compost site at La Collette.

Men caught with cannabis plants worth almost £225,000 were betrayed by getting a huge consignment of compost, a court hears.

Fire crews have spent days at a composting firm damping down hotspots.

More household waste is being recycled in Wales but some councils are still lagging behind, new figures show.

People living near the site of a proposed compost recycling plant at Tormarton have staged a protest against the scheme.

New plans for a controversial composting plant in South Gloucestershire are submitted.

A pilot in which homes had food waste collected separately and composted is hailed a success by government advisers.

The government considers building new "biowaste" plants across England after a successful scheme in Shropshire.

A Jersey deputy calls for La Collette's composting site to be closed because of health concerns for people living nearby.

A team of compost officers are offering advice to gardeners worried about herbicide in their manure.

A Scottish council is forced to issue a reminder to locals about what is appropriate waste for recycling.

The pioneering Japanese community of Kamikatsu which produces zero waste.

Blur bassist Alex James has swapped a life of carousing in bars for composting in Oxfordshire. But a recent trip to Burkina Faso taught him some important lessons about working the soil that are as relevant to gardeners in Britain as farmers in Africa.