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At the COMPOST2025 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, hosted by the US Compost Council, their achievements, commitment, and creativity were recognized across a variety of awards.","authors_tax":[598]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Community composters continue to assert themselves as a growing and integral sector within the composting industry. At the COMPOST2025 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, hosted by the US Compost Council, their achievements, commitment, and creativity were recognized across a variety of awards.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThree members of ILSR\u2019s Coalici\u00f3n de compostadores comunitarios<\/a> (CCC) \u2013 Nicholas Fox, Liz Turner, and Celestine Taieb \u2013 took the top three prizes in the Emerging Composter Challenge at COMPOST2025 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, hosted by the US Compost Council in Phoenix, AZ. The challenge highlighted creative solutions by composters aimed at advancing the compost industry. A panel of industry experts heard a round of presentations from participants and a final pitch session before selecting winners.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nNathan Rutz, whose worker-owner cooperative Rust Belt Riders partnered with ILSR to co-host the Cultivating Community Composting Forum<\/a> in Cleveland this past year, received the H. Clark Gregory Award for his dedication to grassroots composting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nAnother CCC member from Ohio, The Dayton Food Bank, was recognized as the Compost Manufacturer of the Year \u2013 Small Scale for starting the first commercial food waste composting facility in its region, and for using its finished compost to strengthen local food security.<\/span>\r\n\r\nILSR congratulates all COMPOST2025 award winners! Community composting continues to be an exciting and innovative way to not only divert food scraps and other organics, but provide a multitude of other <\/span>economic, social, and environmental benefits<\/span><\/a> to communities. The three winning composing initiatives embody the multifaceted benefits that local composting brings to communities.\u00a0<\/span>","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_media_duo","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_media_duo":{"align":"left","background":"white","image_size":"normal","image":24059,"title":"Nicholas Fox - Commercial & Residential Organics Collection in The Bahamas","text":"Nicholas Fox won the Emerging Composter Challenge first place prize. Nicholas is tackling the island\u2019s dire need for locally produced, high-quality, organic soil amendments. With tourism and landscaping among the largest industries, the nation generates a significant volume of organic waste\u2014all too often sent to landfills. 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By reducing greenhouse gas emissions and turning food scraps into valuable compost, Source Compost aims to transform waste management across the region.","button":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_media_duo","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_media_duo":{"align":"right","background":"white","image_size":"normal","image":24065,"title":"Nathan Rutz - Rust Belt Riders","text":"Nathan Rutz received the H. Clark Gregory Award for his dedication to grassroots composting initiatives. Nathan, has been a key member of the Ohio Organics Council (OHCC), bringing people together from across Ohio to celebrate compost, and is always there to help communities or regions just getting started with their own program. His efforts have brought communities together to embrace composting as a solution for environmental challenges. 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