Catalyzing distributed and diverse local composting across the country to cut food loss, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
Local composting is one of the simplest yet most effective ways communities can exercise their power to protect the planet. ILSR’s interactive Local Composting Toolkit has the resources you need to advance local composting — as a composter, farmer, policymaker, advocate, or local government — all in one place.
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Prioritizing community benefits and high-quality compost, the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program established a $250,000 grant fund to chart he way towards zero waste. This bipartisan bill is the result of five years of advocacy and policy language development, spearheaded by ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative and engaging a wide array of stakeholders along the way.
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Community composters and allies showcased community composting as a force of innovation in the broader composting industry at CCC26.
A report providing guidance for municipalities to support and partner with local composting initiatives, meeting their composting targets while fostering myriad economic and cross-sectoral benefits.
Brenda Platt was awarded the prestigious Jerome Goldstein Lifetime Achievement Award by the US Composting Council.
A snapshot of the operations, diversion, community impacts, finances, government partnerships, and contamination rates of this distinct and often underrepresented slice of the composting sector.
Thriving, equitable communities that compost to cut waste, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
