Brenda Platt

December 4, 2018

December 5th is World Soil Day, a good day to celebrate the power of COMPOST to enhance soil fertility, structure, water-holding capacity, and carbon sequestration. Healthy soils contain 5% organic matter and compost is the best way to add organic  READ MORE

Virginia Streeter

November 12, 2018

ILSR is convening the 6th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum in NYC next May. These events will bring together community composters (and those who love them) to network, share best practices, and build support for community-scale composting systems and enterprises.  READ MORE

Virginia Streeter

October 31, 2018

In 2017, ILSR launched the Baltimore Compost Collective, a food scrap collection and composting service that is employing local youth in Curtis Bay. Read more about the project here. This year we helped organize a community bin-build of a second  READ MORE

Virginia Streeter

October 18, 2018

Join us for a webinar on November 1st at 2p.m. EST to hear from two cities with robust residential food waste collection programs.  READ MORE