Skip to content
COMPOST 101
What is Composting?
How is Compost Produced?
Benefits of Using Compost
What Can be Composted?
Why Build Local Food Scrap Compost Facilities?
Healthy Soil: the Compost Climate Connection
PLANNING
Determining Goals
Solid Waste Plans
Planning For Community Engagement
Public Private Partnerships
Collection of Organics
Sign up and participation options
Education and Promoting Your Program
Waste Audits and Pilot Programs
School & College Procurement
Compostable Products Value
Equipment
SITE DEVELOPMENT
Site Development Basics
Site Suitability
Calculating Site Capacity
Site Design Objectives
Water Management Plans
Create an Odor Impact Minimization Plan
Permits and Approvals
Facility Design, Operation & Processing
Feedstock and Your Site Footprint
OUTREACH
Climate Action Plan
Participation
Contamination
Capture Rate
Pests and Organics Collection
COMPOST TO MARKET
Marketing Personnel
Compost Use Equipment
Identify Potential Markets
Create compost qualities for specific market uses
Develop a Product Brand Specification
Product Certifications
Pricing Structure
Identifying Distribution Channels
Intentionally Sell Your Compost!
Continuous Evaluation of Marketing and Compost Quality
LINK LIBRARY
Model Procurement Policy
Community Toolkit
Excess Food Opportunities Map
IFSC Residential Compost Guide
REFED: Roadmap to 2030
Quantifying Existing Food Waste Infrastructure in the U.S., 2019
State of Organics Recycling in the U.S.
Mapping Urban Access to Composting Programs
Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting
Analysis of the Barriers and Opportunities for the Use of Compost in Agriculture, 2018
How2Compost
In the Public Interest Guide
COMPOST 101
What is Composting?
How is Compost Produced?
Benefits of Using Compost
What Can be Composted?
Why Build Local Food Scrap Compost Facilities?
Healthy Soil: the Compost Climate Connection
PLANNING
Determining Goals
Solid Waste Plans
Planning For Community Engagement
Public Private Partnerships
Collection of Organics
Sign up and participation options
Education and Promoting Your Program
Waste Audits and Pilot Programs
School & College Procurement
Compostable Products Value
Equipment
SITE DEVELOPMENT
Site Development Basics
Site Suitability
Calculating Site Capacity
Site Design Objectives
Water Management Plans
Create an Odor Impact Minimization Plan
Permits and Approvals
Facility Design, Operation & Processing
Feedstock and Your Site Footprint
OUTREACH
Climate Action Plan
Participation
Contamination
Capture Rate
Pests and Organics Collection
COMPOST TO MARKET
Marketing Personnel
Compost Use Equipment
Identify Potential Markets
Create compost qualities for specific market uses
Develop a Product Brand Specification
Product Certifications
Pricing Structure
Identifying Distribution Channels
Intentionally Sell Your Compost!
Continuous Evaluation of Marketing and Compost Quality
LINK LIBRARY
Model Procurement Policy
Community Toolkit
Excess Food Opportunities Map
IFSC Residential Compost Guide
REFED: Roadmap to 2030
Quantifying Existing Food Waste Infrastructure in the U.S., 2019
State of Organics Recycling in the U.S.
Mapping Urban Access to Composting Programs
Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting
Analysis of the Barriers and Opportunities for the Use of Compost in Agriculture, 2018
How2Compost
In the Public Interest Guide
Knowledge Base Archive
This is the archive page for the default knowledge base
Scroll to Top
