Composting

Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 27 percent of the US 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 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.

Composting

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