Composting
Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 27 percent of the US municipal solid waste stream. Thats 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 website, 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.
- Related Links provides links to other resources.