{"id":19034,"date":"2025-05-10T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=19034"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:22:44","slug":"compost-zoning","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/compost-zoning","title":{"rendered":"Zonificaci\u00f3n para el compostaje a escala comunitaria"},"template":"","class_list":["post-19034","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-policy-topic","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-planning-and-zoning","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","authors-sophia-jones"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":"","background_color":"tan","article_type":[135],"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":[103],"impact_areas":[16],"abstract":"Widespread lack of compost-specific zoning regulations poses a major challenge to community-scale composters across the country. Because many local zoning codes do not include specific language on land use for composting, it gets classified as solid waste, subjecting composters to certain steps that, while necessary for landfills or incinerators, may be unnecessarily prohibitive for small- or medium-sized composting operations.","authors_tax":[629]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Widespread lack of compost-specific zoning regulations poses a major challenge to community-scale composters across the country. Because many local zoning codes do not include specific language on land use for composting, it gets classified as solid waste, subjecting composters to certain steps that, while necessary for landfills or incinerators, may be unnecessarily prohibitive for small- or medium-sized composting operations.\r\n\r\nZoning code that includes specific language for composting enables composting operations to get up and running more efficiently while also promoting composting that follows best management practices, produces high-quality compost and zoning that protects public and environmental health. Each local jurisdiction determines its own zoning regulations, but local codes should ideally align with any existing state-wide composting requirements to promote regulatory transparency and avoid confusion.\r\n\r\nListing composting as an accessory agricultural activity is one way to ensure the composting may happen on farms across the state or locality regardless of the existence of zoning code explicit to composting.\r\n

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