Baltimore Collaborates with ILSR to Develop Food Waste Recovery Strategy
Baltimore City’s Office of Sustainability recently released its Food Waste Recovery Strategy, written in partnership with ILSR.… Read More
Fighting Food Waste and Employing Youth in Baltimore
The Compost Collective is an entrepreneurship program where youth are trained in workforce skills, food access programming and community-scale composting. They are receiving guided, hands-on experience managing a small-scale composting operation and its expansion, and using the compost they create to grow fresh produce for the community at Filbert Street Garden.… Read More
ILSR Trains Teen Leaders on the Basics of Composting
The Lindsey Meyer Teen Institute (LMTI) in Secaucus, New Jersey, has a team of youth this summer developing and implementing an action plan to compost food waste at a local high school. To help the team with ideas and move forward with planning their project, ILSR’s lead Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders compost trainers, Brenda Platt and Linda Bilsens Brolis, provided hands-on training July 10th. … Read More
Video: What Is Community Composting? — New 2-Minute Version
Community composters address “What Is Community Composting?” in this 2-minute video.… Read More
Webinar Resources: Detailing Successful Local Government Home Composting Programs
This webinar dives into the details of our new report, Yes! In My Backyard: A Home Composting Guide for Local Government. … Read More
Release: New Report Argues Home Composting Is Vital to Local Waste Reduction Strategies
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tackling the problem of food waste is gaining attention to avoid garbage, conserve resources, create jobs, alleviate hunger, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) details how home composting is among the best opportunities to reduce food waste, especially in the near term and in areas lacking curbside collection or facilities to compost.… Read More
Yes! In My Backyard: A Home Composting Guide for Local Government
The report, Yes! In My Backyard: A Home Composting Guide for Local Governments, profiles 11 home composting programs (10 in the United States, 1 in Canada) and is a guide for local governments starting their own programs. It makes the case that home composting should be a central component of every community’s residential food waste reduction strategy. The guide is not intended as a manual on how to compost at home.… Read More
Washington, D.C. Home Composting Bill Unanimously Passes City Council
On May 1, 2018, Bill B22-0501 – Home Composting Incentives Amendment Act of 2018 unanimously passed the D.C. City Council. ILSR has supported and worked on this bill since it was first introduced by City Councilmember Mary Cheh. Home composting is an important part of any community’s strategy to recycle food scraps and yard trimmings. By cutting waste set out at the curb for municipal collection, home composting will save the City avoided costs in hauling and disposal site tipping fees. At the same, residents will enrich the soil in their own yards.… Read More
Webinar Resources: Using Bokashi in Community Composting — What, Why, How, Who
Bokashi fermentation utilizes a variety of by-products – such as leaves, sawdust, husks, bran, other grains – inoculated with beneficial microbes to ferment kitchen waste.… Read More