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USCC`s 2021 Mentor Match Program is open for applications!
USCC Young Professionals Group aims to connect the composting industry's emerging professionals with more experienced professionals through the Young Professionals Mentor Match Program. Mentors will provide mentees with career advice and insight based on their professional experience, which will help the mentees to make informed, strategic career decisions and advancements. Our mentoring ...
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Still Time to Enter Compost Awareness Week Poster Contest
You can help promote recycling and possibly earn $500 for your efforts by submitting a poster proclaiming next year's International Compost Awareness Week. Entries are due by November 30, 2011. The US Composting Council is calling for entries in its 2012 ICAW Poster Contest. The contest is open to anyone who wants to help celebrate composting and promote the benefits of composting and ...
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USCC files for stand alone NAICS Industry Code for Compost Manufacturing
The US Composting Council, the leading organization representing the commercial compost industry, has applied for a NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code for "Compost Manufacturing". The move, made this spring during the open period for new industry NAICS codes, fulfills a long-term goal of USCC, whose compost production and collection members are currently classified into ...
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Be Green Packaging Products have been Certified by BPI
Santa Barbara, CA - December 8, 2010 - On November 9th, Be Green Packaging LLC, received independent certification from Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), verifying that their molded pulp fiber packaging is compostable. This certification, confirms that their products meet the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D6868 standards for compostability. Be Green Packaging is aware ...
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US Composting Council launches corporate compost leadership group
Companies leading the US in seeking successful composting of their products, packaging and food scraps are invited to become a part of the US Composting Council’s new Corporate Compost Leadership Council, a body that will engage, support and help move forward a suite of tools and strategies to grow composting capacity in the U.S. “Composting and compost use can make a significant ...
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U.S. Composting Council Invites You to Take Part in the 2012 International Compost Awareness Week Poster Contest
The U.S. Composting Council Board of Directors is pleased to announce a call for entries for its 2012 ICAW Poster Contest. The contest will run from September 15 until November 30, 2011 and is open to anyone who wants to help celebrate composting and promote the benefits of composting and compost use. The winning poster will serve as the 2012 International Compost Awareness Week promotional media ...
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US Composting Council’s 15th Annual Conference & Trade Show: Bigger & Better Than Ever! 2008 Conference Scheduled In Oakland, Ca
Holbrook, New York – The USCC 15th Annual Conference and Trade Show was another huge success. Nearly 750 composting and organics recycling professionals and more than 100 exhibitors attended the US Composting Council’s 15th Annual Conference and Trade Show, January 21-24 in Orlando, FL. Hosted by a record 36 sponsors, the Annual Conference attracted a national and international audience, with ...
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SITES Honored with U.S. Composting Council Award
The U.S. Composting Council (USCC) has recognized the Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) with its H. Clark Gregory Award for displaying outstanding service to the composting industry through various grassroots efforts. The award will be presented at a luncheon during the USCC’s annual conference in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 19. Danielle ...
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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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Composting Council: An Ongoing Commitment to Safety at Composting Facilities
Recently two young men died in a tragic accident at Community Recycling & Resource Recovery Inc.'s composting facility near Bakersfield, California. US Composting Council (USCC) President Frank Franciosi stated, "We are deeply saddened by this event, and the USCC is working with our membership to insure that incidents of the is nature are prevented in the future. I know I speak for all of us ...
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Standards for biodegradable, compostable and bio-based plastics: call for evidence
The government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued, on 22nd July, their Call for Evidence on Standards for Bio-based, Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics. The United Nations has predicted that plastic production will account for 20% of all the world's total oil consumption by 2050 if we continue to ...
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USDA reject compost that have compostable plastic
The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Organics Program (NOP) was created to ensure the credibility of the USDA Organics label by setting rules and regulations concerning the certification of organic products. One rule requires compost feedstock to be free of non NOP authorized synthetics in order to be classified as organic. However, third-party certifiers of compost as an organic input ...
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Composting Council launches Second Professional Certification
The US Composting Council’s Certification Commission is introducing a new credential that is designed for industry professionals who are experts in the field of compost manufacturing and facility management. The new certification is called the Certified Compost Professional (CCP™). This differs from the USCC’s Certified Compost Operations Manager (CCOM™) designation ...
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Composting industry`s growth is set to continue
Results from the annual Association for Organics Recycling survey has shown a nine per cent increase in recycled organics. The 2007/08 report, put together by AFOR and the Waste & Resources Action Programme, showed 4.5 million tonnes of source segregated waste was composted in the UK with half of this sold on and industry reporting turnover of more than £165m in the year to April 2008. ...
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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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US Composting Council Announces the Hiring of its New Executive Director
The United States Composting Council (USCC) is delighted to announce the hiring of Michael Virga as its new Executive Director, effective today. Mr. Virga, formerly the Executive Director of Forestry at the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), has been engaged in sustainability efforts throughout his thirty-year career. "Michael brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the ...
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US Composting Council Announces the 2015 International Compost Awareness Week Poster Contest – Call for Entries for Poster Design
The US Composting Council (USCC) is seeking entries for the annual International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) poster contest, incorporating this year’s theme, Be Loyal to Your Soil– Compost! The contest runs September 1 through November 15, 2014 and is open to anyone who wishes to share their artistic interpretation of compost and its ties to soil health. The winning poster will ...
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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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Composting plant Lobau awarded with European Quality Label
At the SusGro 2015 in Vienna the composting plant Lobau was awarded with the European Quality Label by the Austrian Compost Quality Organisation (KGVÖ). The certificate was handed over by ECN Quality Manager Stefanie Siebert and Horst Müller, General Manager of KGVÖ, in the town hall of Vienna. The Austrian Compost Quality Assurance Organisation ‘KGVÖ’ has ...
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Farmers’ use of renewable fertilisers to be revolutionised by new research
Farmers’ and growers’ confidence in digestate and compost has been given a welcome boost, as new ground-breaking research published today, shows smart use of these renewable fertilisers can increase yields and reduce bills with no negative impact on crop quality or safety. The programme of field experiments, ‘Digestate & Compost in Agriculture’ ...
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