Recording: Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Public-Private Partnerships

This is a webinar recording. This live webinar took place on December 9, 2025.

Hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, this webinar featured 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 shared lessons learned and tips for replication from three local government and community composter partnerships in Providence, Rhode Island; New York City; and Philadelphia. These partnerships serve as successful models for local governments and communities across the country, highlighting how composting goals can be achieved while also generating numerous other environmental, social, and economic local benefits. Speakers from Groundwork RI, Compost Power, and Bennett Compost presented, along with local government representatives. These partnerships are part of the 17 local government programs featured in ILSR’s 2026 report, Keep Compost Local.

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.

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.