Catalyzing distributed and diverse local composting across the country to cut wasted food, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
Local composting is one of the simplest yet most effective ways communities can exercise their power to protect the planet. ILSR’s interactive Local Composting Toolkit has the resources you need to advance local composting — as a composter, farmer, policymaker, advocate, or local government — all in one place.
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This ask-me-anything style event featured four composting industry veterans – Nora Goldstein of BioCycle, Susan Fife-Ferris of City of Seattle, Jeff Gage of Green Mountain Technologies, and Brenda Platt of ILSR – as they answered attendees’ most burning composting questions.
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A tribute to Compost Guru Benny Erez: Mentor, Teacher, and Friend
A new Maryland law establishes a $250,000 annual grant program for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue.
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.
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.
Thriving, equitable communities that compost to cut waste, enhance soil, protect the climate, and build community.
