L.A. sanitation workers Miguel Torres, left, and Zac Ortiz unload in-home composting pails to be handed out to homeowners in Los Feliz on Aug. 6. “I question why the city of L.A., being a climate leader in the region, is lagging behind conservative coastal Orange County cities,” said Hoiyin Ip, co-chair of Sierra Club California’s Zero Waste Committee. is in …
In Judith Viorst’s picture book The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, a family grapples with the death of their cat, Barney. Pleia, a start-up based outside of Medellín, Colombia, founded by Melissa Naranjo Hoyos and Daniel Correa Jaramillo in 2018, has devised a streamlined approach to the 10th good thing about Barney. “If you don’t control this process very well,” …
So you know food waste should stay out of the landfill for the good of us all, but what if your jurisdiction doesn’t have a program in place yet, and you don’t have space for a traditional compost pile or garden? L.A. County’s Smart Gardening program sells worm composting bins for $65, complete with worms, and has how-to videos online. …
