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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A participatory event on how to advocate for local ordinances to support distributed composting featuring real-life examples.
On March 25th, advocates and local policymakers introduced a range of policies that local governments can implement to support farmers, healthy soils, economic development, and trash reduction via local composting.
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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.
