Are you interested in keeping composting local but worried that a local, distributed model can’t scale? Are you a community composter who wants to grow your operation but wonders how to do so without becoming more centralized and industrialized? Register for this webinar to learn how three community composting businesses scaled up their operations, while maintaining a local, circular model that maximizes the benefits of composting. Topics covered will include connecting composting to the local food economy, hub-and-spoke models of growth, municipal partnerships, and more!
This webinar will feature presentations from three community composters followed by a moderated panel discussion and Q&A.
Date: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. ET
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A recording of this webinar will be made available to those who register.
This webinar is Part 2 of 2 in a Scaling Up Community Composting webinar series the Institute for Local Self-Reliance offers to support a distributed and diverse composting infrastructure that includes community-sized and on-farm composting.
Check out Part 1: Scaling Up Mission-Driven Community Composting. You can also watch the recordings of all our past composting-related webinar recordings.
Presenters
J.D. Hill, Co-Owner, R.City
J.D. founded Recycled City in 2013 in Phoenix Valley, Arizona. R.City is returning nutrients to the soil and using it to grow fresh produce–in the process building farmland, reducing landfill waste, reducing transportation and spoilage, and strengthening the local food economy. As of 2024, their collection service as grown to handle over six tons of material a day.
Michael Martinez, Executive Director, LA Compost
Michael is a certified Master Gardener, a former elementary school teacher, and the Founder and Executive Director of L.A Compost. Michael has over 8 years of experience building gardens and compost systems throughout the County of Los Angeles as well as other parts of the country. Michael has grown LA Compost from a group of volunteers collecting organics with bikes to a decentralized network of community compost hubs that span across the most populated county in the country.
Marisa DeDominicis, Executive Director, Earth Matter
Marisa DeDominicis has a BA in Business and Organizational Communications from Emerson College, Boston. She worked for the Trust for Public Land as an environmental educator and site coordinator for 18 years.
Charlie Bayrer, Operations Coordinator, Earth Matter
Charlie Bayrer has been an active community composter and gardener for 13 years. He was a co-chair of the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust healthy soils initiative, which sampled and tested the soil in all 34 member gardens from 2007 to 2008.
Image credit: Brenda Platt