Tennessee’s Solid Waste Management Act of 1991 established a $0.90 surcharge on each ton of waste disposed at landfills and incinerators. The revenue is deposited...
The Arizona Solid Waste Recycling Act of 1990 established Arizona’s disposal fee of $0.25/ton to fund the ADEQ Recycling Grant Program. The Recycling Grant Program...
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s (ILSR) Composting for Community team has more than a decade of history actively working with state and local officials, legislators,...
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, Natasha Duarte discusses the successes and challenges of the Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced award recipients for the historic $4.3 billion in funding for the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program (CPRG) Implementation Grants...
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Domingo Morales who discussed waste equity, the future of composting in NYC,...
ILSR celebrates the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.
Help us improve E.P.A's measurements to compare the climate impacts of materials management practices. They are accepting public comments on the Waste Reduction Model (WARM),...
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Kourtnii Brown, founder and director of Common Compost (Oakland, California) and CEO...
These Composting Learning Activities are designed assist community composting sites in training their own community participants, as a hands-on complement to our Community Composting 101...
The CPR Campaign aims to uplift waste reduction and materials conservation projects under the EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction (CPR) Grants Program.… Read More
This webinar highlights strategies for accessing funding under EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Program.… Read More
Tell your state and local government to include zero-waste solutions and local composting in their Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAPs) today.… Read More
We are excited to announce the release of three short videos highlighting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of community composting, created by ILSR’s Composting...
ILSR is providing guidance for the inclusion of community composting in PCAPs as a nature-based solution with cross-cutting benefits that fight climate change, advance equity,...