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Webinar: Healthy Soils and Compost in Policy: Synergies and Opportunities
Our webinar on World Soil Day explored how policy can be leveraged to advance soil health practices, high-quality compost production, and compost use throughout the country, as featured in our Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide and beyond.… Read More
Home Composting Basics on YouTube Now
Learn the basics of home composting with our Youtube series. … Read More
Nuevo recurso en español: ¡Conceptos básicos sobre compostaje casero en Youtube!
Ahora puede ver series de conceptos básicos sobre compostaje casero en Youtube.… Read More
Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide: Synergies and Opportunities
This Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide is designed for advocates, policymakers, and curious minds to explore a menu of policy avenues to address the critical need to both build soil health and divert organic materials from disposal via compost.… Read More
BlackRock v. Black Gold
A NYC composter fights to fend off Wall Street and invest in the land and her community. … Read More
Community Composter versus Incinerator in South Florida
What do we lose when we no longer have control over what happens to the waste we produce? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we speak to Melissa Corichi of Let It Rot, a community composting business in Palm Beach County in South Florida about her battle against the incinerators in her community.
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A Rotten Waste Merger
An environmental lawyer and activist calls bigness the most pressing issue in the waste industry. … Read More
Free Enrollment in ILSR’s Community Composting 101 Course September 18 – 30!
ILSR is offering free enrollment in our online certificate course to residents of states and tribal lands in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic from September 18 – September 30. … Read More
Compost at Home! ¡Taller del Compostaje Casero! Sign Up for Free, Virtual Home Composting Workshops
There’s never been a better time for home composting. Sign up for one of our 1-hour virtual home composting workshops this September. One workshop is offered in Spanish.… Read More
Webinar: Compost and Jumping Worms: What to Know
Jumping worms are invasive earthworms that rapidly degrade soil quality and destabilize local ecosystems. They can be easily introduced to your farm or garden via compost, mulch, or seedlings. This webinar will cover the latest research about jumping worms, best practices for preventing contamination, and specific strategies for on-farm and other composters. … Read More
Webinar: Compost and the FDA Produce Safety Rule
Are you a farmer who uses compost on their fields? A composter who sells to the farming community? A regulator who oversees rules relating to compost quality or on-farm compost use? This webinar will dive into FDA Produce Safety Rule Subpart F, which affects any farm applying stabilized compost to fields producing crops for human consumption in the United States. … Read More
Webinar: Census of Community Composters – Key Findings, Challenges & Future Outlook
Part 6 of our Government Support for Community Composting webinar series featured a presentation from ILSR’s 2022 Community Composter Census lead author Clarissa Libertelli, followed by a moderated panel discussion addressing key challenges to growth and what’s needed to support future innovation and investment. The panel included representatives from local government and community composting.… Read More
California – San Diego Zoning for Community Composting
San Diego County updated its zoning code in 2022 to specifically support community composting activities. The new ordinance promotes community composting by removing large facilities as the sole option and making organics processing more accessible to local compost sites on farms, in backyards, and at community gardens.… Read More
Zoning for Community-Scale Composting
Zoning code that includes specific language for composting enables composting operations to get up and running more efficiently while also promoting composting that follows best management practices, produces high-quality compost and zoning that protects public and environmental health.… Read More
Free Enrollment in ILSR’s Community Composting 101 Course May 7-13!
ILSR is offering free enrollment in our online certificate course to residents of states and tribal lands in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic during International Compost Awareness Week.… Read More