"Third year of doing it." Gardener reveals simple hack using old cardboard boxes: 'You'll love it' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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Lauren's husband was perplexed by the absence of Amazon cardboard packages in their home. Little did he know that Lauren was utilizing the magic of biodegradability by letting her compost ecosystem ...

After a couple of weeks it can be buried in soil or added to the compost heap, where it breaks down quickly. Wormeries are handy too, especially in small gardens. They use compost worms, usually tiger ...

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...