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A webinar sharing practical tips and strategies to reduce contamination at composting sites.<\/h3>\r\nIs managing contamination a challenge for you at your composting site or initiative? Are you hesitant about adding food scraps to your composting initiative due to concerns around added contamination? Or is your community considering investing in a depackager in hopes that it will solve contamination issues?<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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This live webinar took place on February 25th, 2025.<\/h3>\r\n

Access Webinar Recording<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nIn this webinar, three food scrap composters shared tips and lessons learned about cutting contamination in their finished product. Following the presentations, there was a moderated Q&A session.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019re involved in an existing composting initiative or interested in supporting composting in your community \u2013 whether you are a composter, hauler, regulator, policymaker, local business, urban or rural farmer, environmentalist, or public interest advocate \u2013 this webinar is for you. <\/span>\r\n

Part 1 of 3 in ILSR's Reducing Contamination at Composting Sites Webinar Series.<\/h3>\r\nContamination is a major challenge for composting at all scales, often requiring significant investments of labor, time, and money to manage. This webinar series offers a deep dive into three aspects of contamination and composting. <\/span>\r\n\r\nWatch Part 2: Education & Outreach to Reduce Contamination in Composting<\/a> and Part 3: Measuring Contamination in Composting Programs.<\/a><\/span>\r\n

Inscripci\u00f3n<\/h3>\r\n

El registro es $20.<\/p>\r\n

El registro gratuito est\u00e1 disponible para el gobierno, los agricultores y los miembros de la <\/span>Coalici\u00f3n de compostadores comunitarios<\/span><\/a> (CCC). El gobierno debe utilizar el c\u00f3digo de descuento GOV, los agricultores deben utilizar FARMER y los miembros de la CCC deben utilizar CCC al finalizar la compra para registrarse de forma gratuita.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIf you're a community composter and would like to apply to be a part of the Coalition, \u00a1Obtenga m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n y solicite hoy mismo!<\/a><\/strong>","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Panelistas<\/h3>\r\n
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\"\"Pierce Louis \u2013 Co-Founder, Dirt Hugger<\/a> (WA)<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n
\r\n\r\nPierce Louis is the Co-Founder of Dirt Hugger located in Dallesport, Washington. Dirt Hugger was founded in a backyard in 2010 and has rapidly expanded to process ~60,000 tons per year across multiple locations. Pierce does a little bit of everything from running loaders, tuners, and screeners to accounting, finance, sales and marketing. Wearing a different hat each day keeps him motivated and challenged to help small businesses grow through goal-oriented and driven teamwork. Pierce is a past president of the US Composting Council and currently serves on its Board.\u00a0 Dirt Hugger was one of 10 U.S. compost manufacturers that participated in <\/span>Closed Loop Partners\u2019 field study<\/span><\/a> to measure and characterize contamination in the composting process.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n
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\"\"Ryan Green \u2013 Owner\/Lead Composter, Happy Trash Can<\/a> (MT)<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n
Ryan Green has over 10 years of experience working in the organics recycling industry, starting as a work study job collecting food scraps from from the cafeteria while attending Unity College in Maine, working for the NYC Compost Project hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center to currently running Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting alongside his wife, Adrienn Huckabone, for the last 9 years.\u00a0 Ryan and the HTC crew divert over 2.2 million pounds of food scraps annually and work with local institutions like Bozeman Solid Waste, Montana State University, and Bridger Bowl ( to name a few) to expand composting in the Bozeman, Montana community.\u00a0 HTC also took part in the <\/span>Closed Loop Partners \"degradation and contamination\" study<\/span><\/a> 2 years ago.\u00a0 Ryan is committed to helping expand composting efforts not only in Bozeman but beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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\"\"Tom Gilbert \u2013 Owner\/Operator, Granja Black Dirt<\/a> (VT)<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n
Tom Gilbert is the owner\/operator of Black Dirt Farm in Stannard, Vermont.\u00a0 Black Dirt Farm is a diverse and integrated agroecological farm that includes food scrap collection, laying hens foraged on compost, compost and worm castings production, and crop production. Tom has been working in and managing food scrap collection and composting operations, while also working as a community organizer, for 25 years. Previously, as Executive Director of Highfields Center for Composting, Tom oversaw the organization's Close the Loop Vermont campaign, to develop community composting systems throughout Vermont, as well as its composting and collection operations, and Research and Education Program, which produced the Vermont Compost Operator Certification course. Tom\u2019s remarks will focus on preventing contamination by recognizing source separation as a change in behavior that needs to be supported.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Moderador<\/h3>\r\n

\"\"Brenda Platt \u2013 Directora, Iniciativa de Compostaje para la Comunidad, Instituto para la Autosuficiencia Local (ILSR)<\/h4>\r\nBrenda y su equipo del ILSR apoyan a los compostadores a escala comunitaria a trav\u00e9s de foros, seminarios web, podcasts, gu\u00edas, pol\u00edticas, capacitaci\u00f3n y mucho m\u00e1s. En 2017, el Consejo de Compostaje de EE. UU. le otorg\u00f3 el premio H. Clark Gregory por su destacado servicio a la industria del compostaje a trav\u00e9s de iniciativas populares. En 2019, la revista BioCycle present\u00f3 a Brenda como una de las pioneras en el reciclaje de productos org\u00e1nicos. Es licenciada en Ingenier\u00eda Mec\u00e1nica por la Universidad George Washington.\r\n\r\n
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Este proyecto ha sido financiado en parte por la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental de los Estados Unidos en virtud de un acuerdo de asistencia en materia de reciclaje, educaci\u00f3n y divulgaci\u00f3n (REO) con el ILSR.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_feed","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_feed":{"heading":"Watch part 2 and 3 in the series.","link":"","manually_curate":true,"posts":[24640,25609],"select_post_types":[],"select_taxonomy_terms":[]}}]},"yoast_head":"\nTackling Contamination at Composting Sites | Composting for Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this webinar, three food scrap composters share tips and lessons learned about cutting contamination in their finished product.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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