There is nothing glamorous about picking up dog poop. But, as dog owners, we do it anyway, because our four-legged friends can't do it themselves — and put simply: it's the right thing to do. In ...

Myles Stubblefield was a self-described “dirty kid" growing up in Buffalo, New York. “I had my hands in every dirt pile," he tells Treehugger. "I played with worms every time we went fishing, and any ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A new initiative has taken off in San Francisco to convert dog poop into compost. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the program launched Sunday at an open space maintained by ...

BATTERY PARK CITY, Manhattan (WABC) -- Pet owners in Lower Manhattan are doing their part to help the environment through a neighborhood program encouraging residents to compost their dog waste. New ...

NEW YORK-- When you hear the term "composting," food scraps likely come to mind, but one program is accepting another kind of waste. The hope is more dog owners will stoop down to pick up what their ...

It has been a fun challenge over the past few years to learn how to reduce my waste through the several Rs of sustainability (refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle, repair and rot). Dog waste is ...