Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Public-Private Partnerships

Hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, this webinar features lessons learned and tips for replication from community-oriented composters in partnership with local governments.

Read more about the event and speakers on our website.

Are you with a local government or agency interested in reducing and recycling wasted food and curious to learn how you can help spur local composting? Are you a community-oriented composter or micro hauler searching for public-private partnerships? Or perhaps you’re an advocate interested in how a local circular economy can actually be implemented.

This webinar will share lessons learned and tips for replication from ILSR’s upcoming report Keep Compost Local. Lead authors on the report, Julia Spector of ILSR and Nora Goldstein of BioCycle, will present along with speakers from three of the 17 local government partnerships featured in the report: Providence, Rhode Island; New York City; and Philadelphia.

More information coming soon on our website.

This live Zoom webinar will take place on December 9, 2025 from 12 - 1:30 p.m. ET. A recording will be made available to registrants.

Registration is $20. Free registration is available for government, farmers, members of tribal communities, educators, and members of the Community Composter Coalition (CCC). Government should use the discount code GOV, farmers should use FARMER, K-12 educators and schools should use EDU, tribal community members should use TRIBE, and CCC members should use CCC at checkout for free registration.

A recording will be made available to registrants.

If you're a community composter and would like to apply to be a part of the coalition, visit https://ilsr.org/composting/community-composter-coalition to learn more.