The recording for our Thursday, April 25th webinar on our new report, Compostaje comunitario bien hecho: guía de mejores prácticas de gestión is now available! View it below.
Community-oriented composting plays a vital role in promoting composting at all scales. Because operations are often sited within the community, they provide unique opportunities to engage, educate, and even employ the communities they serve. This also provides unique challenges as compared to more remote facilities. By supporting well-managed small-scale sites, individuals, elected officials, and local planners can take immediate action to reduce waste and improve their soils for climate resilience and local food production. Best management practices (BMPs) are essential to avoiding nuisances and creating a high-quality compost end product.
ILSR’s new report, Compostaje comunitario bien hecho: guía de mejores prácticas de gestión, is designed to support community-oriented composters in successfully managing their composting process and site, with a particular focus on sites accepting food scraps. In this webinar, lead author Linda Bilsens Brolis will present practices from the report.
• Identifying your team and a management plan
• Selecting and laying out the site
• Developing your compost recipe
• Building and maintaining your compost pile
• Monitoring and keeping records
• Finishing the composting process
• Health and safety considerations
This webinar is one in a series ILSR offers to share working models and tips for replication. View our webinar resources aquí.
Para obtener más información sobre la iniciativa «Compostaje para la comunidad» del ILSR, haga clic aquí. aquí.
Presenter
Linda Bilsens Brolis is the Project Manager for ILSR’s Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders (NSR) Composter Training Program. Her work with ILSR began in December 2013 with an initial focus on state food waste recovery policies. She then led a nationwide survey of Master Composter training programs, and has managed the NSR program since it launched in 2014. The NSR train-the-trainer program is designed to be adapted and replicated as a model for community composting training around the country. Linda is the lead author of ILSR’s Compostaje comunitario bien hecho: guía de mejores prácticas de gestión y su 2018 Guía para el compostaje in situ en las escuelas. Es operadora certificada de instalaciones de compostaje en el estado de Maryland y se ha formado con los Lubkes en Austria, reconocidos internacionalmente y especializados en una técnica única que mejora el contenido de humus y la calidad del compost.