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The First Community Composter Census
Top left: Community composting training engaging families and youth; Top right: Food scraps delivery handled by CompostableLA (Los Angeles); Center: Black Dirt Farm’s bagged compost (Stannard, VT)....
View ArticleNew Hampshire Adopts Food Waste Disposal Ban
Photos courtesy of Mr. Fox Composting, a food waste collection and composting company based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The New Hampshire State Legislature passed HB300 in June, a bill that bans “any...
View ArticleUSDA’s Composting And Food Waste Reduction Grants Endangered
Top: Images courtesy cities of Knoxville, Tennessee and Upper Arlington, Ohio. Both cities received composting grants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative...
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Florida County Imposes Flow Control Rule To Shut Down Community Composter
Top: Melissa Corichi started Let It Rot, a microhauling and community composting enterprise, in 2015 in Palm Beach County, Florida. Photos courtesy of Let It Rot. In a classic David vs. Goliath...
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Spearheading Community Composting Of Food Waste In China
Top: Entranceway into the composting facility at Bihuali apartment complex in Changsha, Hunan Province. All photos in article courtesy of the China Community Composting Program. Xuehua Zhang China has...
View ArticleComposting Utopia In NYC
Top: Photo by Guy Schaffer The introduction to a new book, Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City by Guy Schaffer, begins with this paragraph: “This...
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Composting Initiatives Awarded EPA Recycling Education & Outreach Grants
Top: Photo courtesy of LA Compost The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) and the Minnesota Composting Council (MNCC) were among the 25 awardees of more than $73 million in Recycling Education...
View ArticleNational Draft Strategy To Reduce FLW And Recycle Organics
On December 2, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the “Draft National Strategy for...
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Taking Stock Of 2023
Nora Goldstein The end of the year is always a good time to take stock of what has, and has not, been achieved in the preceding 11 months. It’s a good reality check and lays the groundwork for how and...
View ArticleNew ILSR Videos On EPA’s Community Composting Page
Top: Image courtesy U.S. EPA The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) announced the release of three short videos highlighting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of community...
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Food Scraps Collection And Composting In Southwest Virginia
Top: Davey Stewards of Star City Compost collecting household food waste. Photos courtesy of Star City Compost. Craig Coker (left) and Davey Stewards (right) A new food scraps composting facility...
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Why New York City Needs Community Composting
Top: Overview of the Earth Matter NY food scraps composting facility on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Photo courtesy Earth Matter NY Nora Goldstein Thirty years after it was created by the New...
View ArticleLiving Compost Hubs App Goes International
Top: Recording composting pile data into the Living Compost Hubs app. Photo courtesy of Kaicycle. A handful of passionate people came together in Wellington Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2015 around the...
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