Composting Makes $en$e: Jobs through Composting & Compost Use

Recycling is an economic development tool as well as an environmental tool. Reuse, recycling, and waste reduction offer direct development opportunities for communities. When collected with skill and care, and upgraded with quality in mind, discarded materials are a local resource that can contribute to local revenue, job creation, business expansion, and the local economic base.… Read More

Howard County’s Expanded Composting Facility Opens on Earth Day

Date: 22 Apr 2013 | posted in: Composting, Media Coverage, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Columbia Patch, April 22, 2013 It’s easy to think nothing of throwing carrot or potato peels into the trash or down the garbage disposal. They quickly decompose. But Howard County announced on Monday that residents can participate in an expanded pilot program that composts food scrap and yard waste. A new composting facility at the Alpha … Read More

Coming to a Curb Near You: Compost Collection

Date: 11 Mar 2013 | posted in: Composting, Media Coverage, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Washington Post, March 11, 2013 Richard Vitullo has seen the future of trash, and it is moldering under his kitchen sink. Eggshell by eggshell, the Takoma Park architect is training himself to bypass the garbage pail and drop food scraps into the new screw-top bucket squeezed in beside the dish soap and sponges. Once a week, … Read More

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

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