{"id":18039,"date":"2022-12-13T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/poster-what-is-composting\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:53:33","slug":"poster-what-is-composting","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/poster-what-is-composting","title":{"rendered":"Cartel: \u00bfQu\u00e9 es el compostaje?"},"template":"","class_list":["post-18039","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-charts-graphs","initiatives-composting-for-community","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-food-security","impact_areas-resilient-cities-and-metros","authors-clarissa-libertelli","authors-linda-bilsens-brolis"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":1171,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[30],"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":[16,18,22],"abstract":"Composting is a process driven by organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye, that transforms raw materials into a valuable soil amendment. Use our new poster to share the magic of compost with your community!\r\n","authors_tax":[634,635]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Para esta informaci\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/poster-what-is-composting-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haga clic aqu\u00ed.<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/poster-what-is-composting-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View in Spanish.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\nComposting is the controlled decomposition of raw organic materials (such as food scraps and dry leaves) that creates compost, a valuable soil amendment. The process is driven by organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.\r\n\r\nUse our new poster to share the magic of compost with your community! It is available for your use (with attribution to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance).\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/2aNdXzYM2SdGT9NKbIMj-xgd2g9c\">Download the Posters<\/a><\/h2>\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/2aNdXzYM2SdGT9NKbIMj-xgd2g9c\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-99371\" src=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-300x225.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ILSR-What-is-Composting-Poster-205x155.png 205w\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Creative direction by Linda Bilsens Brolis and art by Clarissa Libertelli. <\/em><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe want you to be able to share these infographics under creative commons license, free of cost. If you\u2019re publishing on your website, or in one of your publications, please include this sentence:\r\n<blockquote><em>\u201cThe following comes from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (www.ilsr.org), a national nonprofit organization working to strengthen local economies, and redirect waste into local recycling, composting, and reuse industries. It is reprinted here with permission.\u201d<\/em><\/blockquote>\r\nPlease, make sure to let people know they should link to: <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/poster-what-is-composting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ilsr.org\/poster-what-is-composting\/<\/a> to download the original content for their own publications. They also should include the above attribution language.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/poster-what-is-composting-spanish\/\">Click here to view the Spanish version!<\/a><\/h4>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nView our other <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/composting-search-results\/?_sft_contenttype=charts-graphs-resource-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compost posters and infographics<\/a>, including:\r\n\r\n<em><strong>How Composting Combats the Climate Crisis: <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/compost-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ilsr.org\/compost-climate\/<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<b><i>Compost for a Better Planet<\/i><\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/infographics-compost-better-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>ilsr.org\/infographics-compost-better-planet\/<\/b><\/a>\r\n\r\n<b><i>Compost Impacts More Than You Think<\/i><\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/compost-impacts-posters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>ilsr.org\/compost-impacts-posters\/<\/b><\/a>\r\n\r\n<b><i>Hierarchy to Reduce Food Waste &amp; 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