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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.
- 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 various composting-related web sites.