Catalyzing distributed and diverse local composting across the country to cut food loss, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
On the latest episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, Terry Craghead, founder and CEO of Fertile Ground Cooperative, joins ILSR’s host Jordan Ashby to share how Fertile Ground went from competing on Big Waste’s terms to creating a new set of terms altogether to grow a local, circular economy and worker power.
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Four Big Waste companies control 60% of the $91 billion waste industry. Our new infographics explain Big Waste’s profitable and polluting playbook and how local composting and wasted food reduction offers one circular alternative.
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Use this rubric to assess how rodent resistant a composting site is, whether it's your own site or a site you manage or oversee.
In this webinar, three presenters will share tips and lessons learned on how to use outreach and education to avoid contamination in drop-off and curbside...
Contribute to the scholarship fund at the 9th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum.
In this webinar, three food scrap composters share tips and lessons learned about cutting contamination in their finished compost.
Thriving, equitable communities that compost to cut waste, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
