On July 1, 2024, the City of Pomona, California adopted a comprehensive update to the City of Pomona Zoning and Development Code. The updates removed...
ILSR’s Composting for Community policy team has once again worked with Maryland Delegate Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal Surcharge and Wasted Food Reduction...
Join this webinar to hear how researchers and programs are measuring contamination. Whether you're launching a new program or refining an existing one, this webinar...
Use this rubric to assess how rodent resistant a composting site is, whether it's your own site or a site you manage or oversee.
In this webinar, three presenters will share tips and lessons learned on how to use outreach and education to avoid contamination in drop-off and curbside...
ILSR in collaboration with partners in Maryland has developed a pilot composter course for anyone interested in supporting composting initiatives in their communities.
In this webinar, three food scrap composters share tips and lessons learned about cutting contamination in their finished compost.
In 2022, Baltimore’s County Council enacted zoning regulations defining on-farm composting as distinct from landfills and dumps and permitting, by right, on-farm composting facilities.
Anaerobic digestion can harness power from organic waste. But it can also have some negative ecological and health effects.
The first hands-on food waste composting workshop of the new Montgomery County Master Composter Training Program was held at the Agricultural History Farm Park’s Composting...
In 2022, Hawai’i enacted HB1992 HD3 SD1 CD1 (Act 131) to allow composting in agricultural districts by designating it as a permissible land use. The...
In 2018, Toledo, Ohio updated its municipal planning and zoning code (Subsection 1104.2400) to clarify definitions of agriculture and urban gardens and apply additional land...
This Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide is designed for advocates, policymakers, and curious minds to explore a menu of policy avenues to address the...
ILSR’s Composting for Community team has worked closely with Delegate Regina T. Boyce to introduce the Solid Waste Disposal and Diversion and On-Farm Composting and...
In 2009, Maine adopted significant changes to its compost facility rules in an effort to advance the practice of composting. The revision of Maine’s composting...