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Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Local Governments to Build Community Prosperity with Composting
A report providing guidance for municipalities to support and partner with local composting initiatives, meeting their composting targets while fostering myriad economic and cross-sectoral benefits.
Diverse, Impactful, Growing, Resilient: 2024 Community Composter Mini-Census Findings
A snapshot of the operations, diversion, community impacts, finances, government partnerships, and contamination rates of this distinct and often underrepresented slice of the composting sector.
A Growing Movement: 2022 Community Composter Census
A Growing Movement: 2022 Community Composter Census is the first census of the community composting sector. With more than 50 figures and graphics, the report...
Report: Baltimore’s Fair Development Plan for Zero Waste
ILSR worked with Zero Waste Associates to co-author Baltimore’s Fair Development Plan for Zero Waste. The plan provides a step by step guide to transitioning...
Big Waste dominates every aspect of solid waste and recycling practice and policy. The top four consolidated companies earn $30 billion of the $70 billion...
Size Matters! New Report Shows The Value of Small-Scale, Community-Based Composting
Composting can take place at many levels – backyard, block, neighborhood, schoolyard, community, on-farm, and regional – and in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Composting...
Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting
ILSR’s July 2014 report, Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting, describes successful initiatives, their benefits, tips for replication, key start-up steps, and the...
State of Composting in the US: What, Why, Where & How
State of Composting in the U.S., published in July 2014, is the first comprehensive review of composting basics, national and state statistics, job generation data,...
Composting Builds Healthy Soils and Protects Watersheds, Says New ILSR Report
A new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Composting Makes $en$e Project documents the importance of expanded composting and compost use to enhance soils, protect...
Composting Supports Jobs and Healthy Watersheds, Say New ILSR Reports
Two new reports from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Composting Makes $en$e Project document the importance of expanded composting and compost use to enhance soils,...
Composting Makes $en$e: Jobs through Composting & Compost Use
Recycling is an economic development tool as well as an environmental tool. Reuse, recycling, and waste reduction offer direct development opportunities for communities. When collected...
Released to coincide with the UN’s World Environment Day on June 5th, 2008, this report documents the link between climate change and unsustainable patterns of...
Beyond 40 Percent: Record-Setting Recycling and Composting Programs
The recovery of more than 40 percent of municipal solid waste is now a reality. This report establishes materials recovery as a cost-effective, primary waste...
