Composting | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream. That's a lot of waste to send to landfills when it could become useful and environmentally beneficial compost instead!

Composting offers the obvious benefits of resource efficiency and creating a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled. On this web site, you will learn about the following:

Basic Information - provides a general description of what compost is and which materials should and should not be composted.
Where You Live - contains information about regional and state composting programs.
Organic Materials - provides more detailed information about the specific materials good for composting.
Frequent Questions - presents frequent questions about how and why you should compost.
Laws/Statutes - discusses regulations for organics materials and composting facilities.
Environmental Benefits - explains how composting benefits the environment.
Science/Technology - discusses how the composting process works and the different methods of composting, such as creating your own composting pile
Publications - contains a list of composting and related publications.

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