Home Composting Workshop

 

Best practices for home composting. Learn which bin system works in your home. What materials can and can’t be composted. And more. Already composting? Bring your questions.

 

Bonus gift! In person attendees will receive a free bucket or compost bin of your choice to take home while supplies last.

Saturday, September 16, 9-11am

Enfield Public Works Facility, 74 Lockehaven Road

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Friday, September 29, 9-11am

New London Whipple Hall, (with Virtual Option), 25 Seamans Rd

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Saturday, September 30, 9-11am

 

Cornish Former Store (with Virtual Option), 226 Route 120

 

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Orford Workshop Coming Soon!

 

REGISTER for New London Virtual or Cornish Virtual

For those event with a Virtual option, those registrants will be able to view the presentation, ask questions, and receive a recording. In-person, no registration required.

 

More Home Composting Workshops Coming Soon!

Keep informed on this page. To host a workshop for residents or community compost leaders, contact Olivia ouyizeye@uvlsrpc.org.

CHALLENGE

Billions of tons of food are discarded every year in the United States. Only 4% of that waste is estimated to end up back in our productive soils through the process of composting. The remaining 96% of food scraps end up in our every day trash that goes to the land fill. There, it makes up nearly a quarter of discarded materials.

PROGRAM GOALS

We seek to advance and support efforts that reduce food scrap in our landfills through composting and other methods. Our main efforts include:

• Support municipalities, schools, and households to identify and implement strategies.
• Built around network and relationship - seeking to identify opportunity and create connections across people and organizations.
• Facilitate visioning, planning, and/or material purchase.
• Provides (or collaborates on) education in technical and scientific aspects, as well as the social dynamics of eliminating food waste and managing a compost in community or with neighbors.
• Works closely with partners to bring the people and resources needed to move goals forward.