Cover Story Stacy Jones rolls a green composting cart up to the Cloudburst Recycling truck he’s parked at Southeast 21st Avenue and Pine Street.  Jones latches the metal bar on the front of the bi   More

Cover Story All Images WW Photo IllustrationsDavid Wu’s tiger suit was the tip-off that 2011 was going to be a strange one. The year opened with a sitting congressman posing in a child’s orange-and-black    More

Dr. Know Now that we’ve got weekly compost/yard debris pickup, I figure I should be able to dump my 100 percent-organic Christmas tree into the compost bin and not get charged for tree disposal. Can I?&n   More

News After testing it for a year and a half with 2,000 Portland households, the City of Portland's curbside composting program starts October 31st.  The program for single-family households and apartments buildings with less than four units will allow people to separate food waste from the rest of their garbage.   Judging from the 100 calls per day that the curbside composting hotline is ...   More