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The Fourth National Cultivating Community Composting Forum, January 2017, made clear that community composters serve an integral and unique role in both the broader composting industry and the sustainable food movement. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[635]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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On January 24th, 2017, ILSR along with BioCycle<\/a> and <\/span>the US Composting Council<\/a> (USCC)<\/span> co-sponsored the 4<\/span>th<\/span> Cultivating Community Composting (CCC) Forum, held in conjunction with the USCC\u2019s International Conference & Trade Show in Los Angeles, California. The Forum was preceded by a full-day Best Practices in Community Composting Workshop. The Workshop and Forum provided attendees a unique opportunity to network, share best practices, and build support for community scale composting. ILSR secured funding from a number of sponsors to support these events. A hearty thanks to 11th Hour Project<\/a>, Food Waste Experts<\/a>, ReoTemp Instruments<\/a>, Sustainable Generation<\/a>, BioBag<\/a>, Green Mountain Technologies<\/a>, O2 Compost<\/a>, and EPA Region IV<\/a> for their generous support! \u00a0We provided scholarships of up to $500 for 42 community composters to attend.\u00a0Check out presentations from the 2017 CCC Workshop and Forum<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rodette Jones (MD), Tracie Troxler\u00a0(FL), Kat Nigro (NC), Molly Lindsay (NY) and Tiffany Bess (FL) share why they attended the 2017 USCC Conference in LA. Photo courtesy of USCC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CCC 2017 served as a valuable reminder that community composters serve an integral and unique role in both the broader composting industry and the\u00a0sustainable food movement. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that are collecting food waste by burning calories instead of fossil fuel<\/a>,\u00a0employing youth<\/a>\u00a0and marginalized\u00a0groups, and developing innovative\u00a0data-sharing\u00a0applications<\/a>\u00a0and cooperative ownership structures<\/a>. We are the compost educators and facilitators that are\u00a0building equity and power<\/a> in our communities from the ground up, by supporting\u00a0businesses,\u00a0schools, farmers<\/a>, community centers<\/a>, and other communities in need<\/a>.\u00a0We are the front lines, grassroots, boots-on-the-ground that are\u00a0cultivating\u00a0awareness and demand for compost and its associated benefits. We are transforming landscapes, urban and rural (and everything in between), by getting compost into the hands that\u00a0feed the soil that feeds us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CCC Workshop brought together 60+ community composters from 17 states for one of the largest gathering of local-scale composters in history. It was a\u00a0full-day, pre-conference event where community composters shared <\/span>practices that work through both presentation and small group discussions. Attendees\u00a0explored how to adapt the efforts and achievements of other programs for their communities and explored next steps to keep the momentum of the movement moving forward. Topics included: Key Ingredients of Community Composting; Small-Scale Composting Systems and Processing Best Management Practices; Hauling, Bike and Other Logistics; The Business of Community Composting; and a panel discussion on Community Engagement and Building Community Power via Community Composting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“This was so inspiring! It\u2019s so easy to feel all alone in micro hauling & processing and it\u2019s very refreshing to be with so many others in the same boat!”<\/p>\n

– Meredith\u00a0Danberg- Ficarelli (Common Ground Compost, New York NY)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some key takeaways\u00a0from the CCC Workshop:<\/p>\n