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2020 The Composting Council Annual Awards announced
Awardees are nominated by peers and honored each year at the US Composting Council's Annual Conference and Tradeshow. This year's awards will be announced at COMPOST2021, the USCC’s virtual conference. The City of Orlando’s Green Works Orlando Program is being recognized with USCC”s Organics Diversion Program of the Year, which is awarded to a program, public or private, that ...
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Target Organics: USCC collects second round of data for expanding municipal composting
The US Composting Council (USCC) has launched the second phase of Target Organics, a comprehensive program of the Target Organics Committee aimed at cultivating tools and strategies that U.S. municipalities can use to begin or expand organics collection in their communities. The USCC's Target Organics Committee has disseminated a survey - targeted at 2,000 municipalities -- to USCC chapters, ...
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EPA Regional Administrator Tours Duluth Composting Facility, Highlights the Benefits of Reducing Food Waste
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Susan Hedman highlighted the environmental benefits of diverting food waste from landfills today at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District’s composting facility. “The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District’s innovative composting program provides a terrific example of how we can turn food waste into a valuable ...
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Inland Empire, L.A. County honored by U.S. EPA for composting partnership efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest region today presented its esteemed Environmental Champion award to the Inland Empire Regional Composting Authority (IERCA) and the Los Angeles County Sanitation District for their work to develop a partnership composting program and state-of-the-art renewable energy composting facility. The award was presented by EPA’s ...
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JetBlue To Launch Composting Program At JFK´s Terminal 5
NEW YORK, May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline™, today announced a partnership with Air Ventures and Royal Waste Services to compost leftovers from select restaurants in Terminal 5 (T5) at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Air Ventures, the franchisee that owns and operates the Jamba Juice and Dunkin Donuts restaurants in T5 and ...
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US composting council`s 18th Annual Conference & Trade Show call for papers
Abstracts are encouraged on the following conference topics: Feedstocks, Collection, Processing & Energy Production Increasing Food Residuals Composting in the U.S. Streamlining permit regulations for composting food residuals Developing diversion programs Integrating food residuals into existing yard waste composting programs Overcoming collection issues Advances in on-site ...
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ICAW poster available for use by the press for international compost awareness week: May 3-9, 2009
A 5th grade student has been recognized by the US Composting Council as the International Compost Awareness Week poster contest winner during a competition that challenged each to visually portray the theme, 'Compost! Recycling The Way Nature Meant It To Be'. Max A. Million of Nettleton Elementary School in Duluth, Minnesota was selected as the grand prize winner of the ICAW poster contest held ...
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International Compost Awareness Week Comes To Town!
A time to get your community up and cheering “the possibilities are endless … compost!” Holbrook, New York – Whether it’s through backyard, on-site or centralized initiatives, composting is a proven way to help communities sustainably manage their organic residuals. Be a part of the largest environmental education event for composting. The U.S. Composting Council invites you to join in ...
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International Composting Awareness Week May 6 - 12, 2007. A time to `Spread the Compost` to support organics recovery, composting and the use of compost
Holbrook, New York -- Be a part of the largest environmental education event for composting. The U.S. Composting Council officially invites you to join in celebrating International Compost Awareness Week, May 6-12, 2007. Celebrated across the United States, Canada, UK and Europe, composting advocates are encouraging everyone to Compost! This year's national poster theme, 'The Possibilities Are ...
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