https://www.compostlaw.org/policy daily 0.75 2020-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589789157733-HB5TSDUB47GZQVO13882/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Compost Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589789302360-CD71USC2ED9L69SVQ0BD/44898055394_eea3309979_o.jpg Compost Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589820357686-LBFOCT6BBSOZECRNV73G/44708986865_f476c00e01_o.jpg Compost Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589775705339-3JACYJ8B3Y0FAZX9RNUT/31750254368_29f5b0af72_o.jpg Compost Policy https://www.compostlaw.org/home daily 1.0 2020-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589822133850-3V21ZFOL7F6XYNCJ0S2F/DSCF2033.jpg Home - Community composters serve an integral and unique role in both the broader composting industry and the sustainable food movement. They are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that are collecting food waste by burning calories instead of fossil fuel, employing youth and marginalized groups, and developing innovative data-sharing applications and cooperative ownership structures. They are the compost educators and facilitators that are building equity and power in our communities from the ground up, by supporting businesses, schools, farmers, community centers, and other communities in need. They are the front lines, grassroots, boots-on-the-ground that are cultivating awareness of and demand for compost and its associated benefits. They are transforming landscapes, urban and rural (and everything in between), by getting compost into the hands that feed the soil that feeds us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589821829177-MN43GRVWRH8AOQ68A595/49899369991_80130fd632_o.jpg Home - Community composting has many benefits, which include helping to: meet ZERO WASTE and landfill diversion goals increase state and local compost facility capacity manage compost feedstock for contaminants educate communities about composting rebuild local soil health generate high quality bio-renewable products create local jobs strengthen local food security improve local air quality When composting is small-scale and locally based, community participation and education can flourish. Community composting can also complement large-scale landfill diversion efforts and fill key capacity gaps at the local level. Expanding the reach, accessibility, and local benefits of composting by pairing community composting with industrial composting is a critical strategy for the U.S. to achieve ambitious food waste recovery goals. https://www.compostlaw.org/resources daily 0.75 2020-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589847922423-GT53H8T5F4JQGET1KC0X/31750253918_7630c6b7df_o+%281%29.png Resources https://www.compostlaw.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2026-05-23 https://www.compostlaw.org/compostlaw daily 0.75 2020-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589662656537-IUK83KZ4EEGPA6HBHMD9/29290328098_fba6fac158_c.jpg Compost Law https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589838563672-9H3UIPSELATOA18PL0IQ/43111665922_084b19fe8d_c.jpg Compost Law https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589838648943-ZKNBCP7UZUQQ106GSHMP/29290328338_df62572b23_k.jpg Compost Law https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589837971335-ZIX9B1SRK8Z7IQZ0D1G9/29290328338_df62572b23_k.jpg Compost Law https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1590093174970-ESKQF1S06FSG2O33OR6J/Queensbrisge%2BPark%2BCommunity%2BCompost%2BSite.jpg Compost Law - Compost law protects communities and helps them plan. Start by dividing your legal research into two major categories based on the goal. First, there are many laws designed to protect communities, air, and water from potential nuisances or pollution that could result from poorly managed compost operations. Second, there are laws designed to help communities plan for scaling-up composting. Both the protective laws and planning processes can pose compliance barriers for small-scale and community-based operations, mainly because the trend is for state and local agencies to create regulations with only larger, industrial solutions in mind. (Image credit: NYC Compost Project site at Queensbridge taken by Sustainable Generation) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1595373488120-44P74D758TX1B4YDLCWN/IMG_1942.jpg Compost Law These policies are important for managing compost production and compost quality, but the associated permitting, inspections, testing, and fees are often too burdensome for small-scale composters to overcome without tiered levels of enforcement or exemptions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebdd3df36467a3be075ec5e/1589762586807-6JAUNTI3CN2DY2JXTEIB/49898632133_fb692944ba_o.jpg Compost Law These policies are headed in both the right and wrong directions, because the trend is for top-down planning to look for large-scale, high-impact solutions, but often at the expense of supporting a more diversified and local compost industry. https://www.compostlaw.org/generators daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://www.compostlaw.org/haulers daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://www.compostlaw.org/facilities daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://www.compostlaw.org/take-action daily 0.75 2020-05-18 https://www.compostlaw.org/community-composting daily 0.75 2020-07-22