MD Seminar on Compost BMPs for Watershed Protection

Date: 5 Feb 2013 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Tools exist that can remove up to 96% of stormwater pollutants. Are you interested? Attend this FREE seminar on March 5, 2013, to learn how compost-based BMPs can dramatically reduce sediment and targeted pollutants entering the Chesapeake Bay. ILSR has partnered with local watershed and organizations to sponsor this event. Scientists from Filtrexx International and representatives … Read More

Composting Efforts Gain Traction Across the United States

Date: 3 Feb 2013 | posted in: Composting, Media Coverage, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Washington Post, February 3, 2013 Roy Derrick maneuvered his forklift with a pallet of neatly boxed expired produce and flowers and dropped it into an industrial compactor at Safeway’s cavernous return center in Upper Marlboro. As the compactor hummed, compressed food and floral scraps spilled through a chute into a 40-foot trailer, one of five that … Read More

National Capital Region Organics Task Force

Date: 3 Dec 2012 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The National Capital Region Organics Task Force is a group of government, public interest, institutional and business representatives working to expand recovery, full capture and utilization of organic materials in the metropolitan Washington, DC region. The Task Force is chaired by: Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) John Snarr, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) … Read More

Next Organics Task Force Meeting, November 16, 2012

Date: 6 Nov 2012 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The National Capital Region Organics Task Force – co-chaired by ILSR – is hosting its next meeting on November 16, 2012, from 10a.m. – 12 p.m. at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Since hearing from model Master Composter programs at the last Task Force meeting on September 24, the group has developed a subcommittee (i.e. Master … Read More

Chesapeake Compost Company Opens MD’s Largest Indoor Compost Facility

Date: 1 Nov 2012 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Chesapeake Compost Company (CCC) has started operating in the Curtis Bay section of Baltimore as of October 1. The company will process 180 tons per week of separated discard food and 180 tons per week of wood chips into finished compost delivered to the 54,000 square foot facility by local businesses and institutions. The facility is … Read More

Promoting Compost-Amended Soils and Compost Related Products as Stormwater Management and Erosion Control Best Management Practices

Date: 29 Oct 2012 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

To join an ad hoc committee of the National Capital Region Organics Task Force that is supporting the adoption of policies and standards that promote compost-amended soils as watershed protection, email Bobby Bell info@ilsr.org.   Background Naturally occurring (undisturbed) soil and vegetation provide important stormwater functions including: water infiltration; nutrient, sediment, and pollutant adsorption; sediment and pollutant biofiltration; water … Read More

Development of a Master Composter Training Program in the Washington, DC Region

Date: 29 Oct 2012 | posted in: Composting, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

If you are interested in supporting the development of a DC Region Master Composter Training Program, please contact Bobby Bell at info@ilsr.org. An active Master Composter Training Program is a key component of a successful decentralized community-based composting infrastructure. The National Capital Region Organics Task Force has agreed to support the development of a Master Composter Training … Read More

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