Durango, Colorado – Compost and Collection Capacity Building
In 2025, the City of Durango adopted Resolution R-2025-0004, which directed the city manager to execute pilot organic waste management programs, conduct research on ordinances...
Are you a local government interested in reducing and recycling wasted food and curious to learn how you can help spur community-scale composting? Or perhaps you are a community-oriented composter or micro hauler searching for public-private partnerships. This webinar series is for you!
In this series you will learn how cities are providing community-scale composting with a wide range of support including:
This webinar series, together with our broader library of composting-related webinar recordings, is one way ILSR supports the growth of a distributed and diverse composting infrastructure that includes community-scale and on-farm systems. Explore our other composting-related webinar recordings.
May 4th, 2022
The NYC Compost Project, created in 1993 by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY), works to rebuild NYC’s soils by providing New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to produce and use compost locally. Hear from representatives from DSNY as well as two partner organizations including Big Reuse and LES Ecology Center.
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June 8th, 2022
Micro haulers and community-scale composters need government support to sustain their business models. Listen to this webinar to hear directly from food scrap collectors and composters who have secured some type of private-public partnership. If you represent local government, this webinar will also cover how you can directly support local food scrap recovery businesses.
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June 23rd, 2022
Listen to this webinar to hear from select jurisdictions which are providing a wide range of support for community-scale composting activities, from building concrete pads under 3-bin systems and granting right of entries to urban parks to awarding RFPs for new compost sites.
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October 27th, 2022
Tune into this webinar to explore a range of ways that urban, suburban, and rural governments — from San Diego County to rural Vermont to Albany, New York — are supporting on-farm and community composting.
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April 19th, 2023
In this webinar, Sashti Balasundaram, Founder of WeRadiate, shares case studies from Western New York – the City of Buffalo, Town of Amherst, and Erie County – in which local community composters and volunteers advocate and work alongside elected officials to bring forth change.
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June 22nd, 2023
This webinar highlights ILSR’s recent report, A Growing Movement: 2022 Community Composter Census, which is the first census of community composters to track the nature and growth of this sector, identify its key challenges, and demonstrate its benefits.
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In 2025, the City of Durango adopted Resolution R-2025-0004, which directed the city manager to execute pilot organic waste management programs, conduct research on ordinances...
More than 200 resources for individuals seeking simple actions to improve their community.
In 2026, the Maryland Legislature passed HB 429/SB 599 “On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program,” establishing an annual grant program for on–farm organics recycling...
A participatory event on how to advocate for local ordinances to support distributed composting featuring real-life examples.