{"id":16969,"date":"2019-03-05T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/webinar-resources-community-scale-composting-systems-with-james-mcsweeney\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:15:50","slug":"webinar-community-scale-systems-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/webinar-community-scale-systems-march-2019","title":{"rendered":"Webinar Resources: Community-Scale Composting Systems with James McSweeney"},"template":"","class_list":["post-16969","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-presentations-events","initiatives-composting-for-community","authors-virginia-streeter"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":3698,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[29],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":false,"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"<p>View the recording of our webinar with James McSweeney! He walked through core concepts related to planning compost site operational capacity, drawing from his newly released book.<\/p>\r\n<p>&hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/webinar-community-scale-systems-march-2019\/\" aria-label=\"Webinar Resources: Community-Scale Composting Systems with James McSweeney\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n","authors_tax":[614]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p>View the recording of ILSR&#8217;s webinar with James McSweeney below!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.composttechnicalservices.com\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-69377\" src=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-book-border.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-book-border.jpg 2590w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-book-border-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-book-border-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-book-border-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As communities, cities, and states push to divert food and other compostables from disposal, the demand for organics recycling infrastructure has never been greater. Yet for a multitude of reasons, there are few places where processing capacity aligns well with demand, and many sites find themselves undersized and lacking the tools to expand. Drawing from his newly released 2019 book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community-Scale Composting Systems: A Comprehensive Practical Guide for Closing the Food System Loop and Solving Our Waste Crisis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and his experience working with hundreds of composters, large and small, James McSweeney will walk through core concepts related to planning compost site operational capacity. In scaling composting systems, the details matter. Every operation is different and relying on poor assumptions can create large problems, which are hard to recover from. James will cover both conceptual and practical methods for understanding and planning food scrap composting capacity across different composting methodologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This webinar is one in a series ILSR offers to share working models and tips for replication. View our webinar resources <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/tag\/composting-webinars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Para obtener m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre la iniciativa \u00abCompostaje para la comunidad\u00bb del ILSR, haga clic aqu\u00ed. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/composting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>aqu\u00ed<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kqclIt-g1gs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h4>Altavoz<\/h4>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-69153 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-headshot.jpg 2873w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-headshot-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-headshot-768x732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/james-mcsweeney-headshot-1024x977.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>James McSweeney<\/strong> is a composting consultant, educator, and author of <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.composttechnicalservices.com\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Sistemas de compostaje a escala comunitaria<\/i><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a comprehensive designer\u2019s and practitioner\u2019s manual for food scrap composters. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through his work at the former Highfields Center for Composting and current consulting company, Compost Technical Services, James has worked with hundreds of composters, large and small, on everything from site planning, design, and management to compost heat recovery and livestock feeding systems. He co-authored with ILSR\u2019s Brenda Platt, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/size-matters-report-shows-small-scale-community-based-composting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aumentar la fertilidad local: gu\u00eda para el compostaje comunitario<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has been an ardent proponent and collaborator in the community composting movement in the United States. With a background in agroecology and permaculture, restoring ecological integrity to local farm and food systems is at the heart of James\u2019s work. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","":null,"settings":""}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Webinar Resources: Community-Scale Composting Systems with James McSweeney | Composting for Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Listen as composting consultant James McSweeney covers conceptual and practical methods for planning food scrap composting capacity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/webinar-community-scale-systems-march-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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