Catalyzing distributed and diverse local composting across the country to cut food loss, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
Contamination is a major challenge for composting at all scales, often requiring significant investments of labor, time, and money to manage. Join this webinar to hear how researchers and programs are measuring contamination. Whether you’re launching a new program or refining an existing one, this webinar offers actionable strategies for using data to drive results.
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On the latest episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, Terry Craghead, founder and CEO of Fertile Ground Cooperative, joins ILSR’s host Jordan Ashby to share how Fertile Ground went from competing on Big Waste’s terms to creating a new set of terms altogether to grow a local, circular economy and worker power.
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Happy International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), running from May 4 – 10, 2025!
Our new infographics explain Big Waste’s profitable and polluting playbook and how local composting and wasted food reduction offers a circular alternative that turns waste...
Use this rubric to assess how rodent resistant a composting site is, whether it's your own site or a site you manage or oversee.
Contribute to the scholarship fund at the 9th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum.
Thriving, equitable communities that compost to cut waste, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
