Composting Partners

08/11/2023

Ever wonder how the materials you place into the Chicago Blue Cart are managed? Check out the answers here! Thank you DSS!

The City's Blue Cart program provides bi-weekly recycling services to single-family homes and multi-unit buildings with four or fewer units. One of the goals of Chicago’s Climate Action Plan is to increase resident awareness on recycling and sustainability through targeted and equitable education ...

06/07/2023

Strong and responsible Cook County leadership creating resources and opportunities. Please give this a listen. Thank you Anthony!

Anthony Tindall: Sustainable Recycling
Green Sense Radio

When you want to get rid of old computers, furniture, home entertainment devices, mobile electronics, and other items, there is now a permanent recycling drop-off facility in Chicagoland. Anthony Tindall manages the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability's Solid Waste Division and talks about the new partnership with South Suburban College and the creation of the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM). The center will repurpose, reuse, or recycle the items instead of putting them in a landfill. He also talks about what items can not be recycled.
Listen on Apple Podcasts:

‎Show Green Sense Radio, Ep Anthony Tindall: Sustainable Recycling - Jun 6, 2023

05/01/2023

The 2023 International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) theme is truly a collaborative
and international effort. This year’s theme is For Healthier Soil, Healthier
Food…Compost! The theme was chosen based on a serious world-wide issue that every
nation, unfortunately, experiences: hunger. Compost not only helps the environment but
also helps to decrease food shortages experienced around the world. Join the IFSCC
and learn more about compost and composting, and all things related, through a variety
of virtual and in person experiences and programs, here in Illinois. Hope to see you!
https://illinoiscomposts.org/icaw-2023/
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is an educational initiative designed to
showcase compost production and demonstrate compost use and is supported by
compost organizations around the world. This May 7-13, join the Illinois Food Scrap &
Composting Coalition for a variety of online and in person events to celebrate ICAW’s
2023 theme, For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…COMPOST! Find more information
and registration details here https://illinoiscomposts.org/icaw-2023/
Come on out starting Sunday, May 7 and join IFSCC’s International Compost Awareness
Week events. There will be many happy, passionate, folks waiting to meet and greet you
virtually and in person. ICAW provides a very unique opportunity to have some fun, but
also learn how you can impact your little corner of the world. Join any Adventure in
Composting and know that you are also playing a part in something that reaches and
impacts the greater planet and beyond. https://illinoiscomposts.org/icaw-2023/

International Compost Awareness Week 2023 The Illinois Food Scrap & Composting Coalition (IFSCC) is proudly joining individuals around the world to celebrate International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) from May 7 – 13. ICAW is the largest and most comprehensive education initiative of the global c...

12/08/2021

From the Illinois Recycling Foundation: Compostable Products Webinar: 12/15/21 from 10:30AM - 12PM Central.

The Illinois Recycling Foundation is holding a webinar on compostable products that may be of interest to USCC chapter members.
The webinar features a summary of the recent California standards legislation, followed by presentations of two compost facilities in Illinois that are using different approaches to accept them. EcoProducts and Better Earth Logistics/LHF Compost work together and take the vertical integration approach to control the process in Central Illinois. We Care Denali, through CMA, plans to take the third-party certification approach at their new Harborview compost site in Chicago. We look forward to you joining us on the webinar.
For more information see the link:

What You Need to Know About This Important Segment of the Recycling Industry MAKING COMPOSTING EASIER IN ILLINOIS Join Us to Discuss Increasing Composting Awareness WEDNESDAY DEC 15TH WEBINAR Jamie Br

06/01/2021

Growing Home LLC, in Englewood, has CSA Shares Available! Great organization and great produce. Please consider. Here's the link to the info!

05/06/2021

Nurturing soil with compost greatly enhances lawns, gardens and landscapes. This Compost Awareness Week the Illinois Food Scrap Coalition (IFSC) partnered with to develop this fact sheet on how to source, manage and apply compost to your yard for best results bit.ly/IFSCcompost . Thanks to Ryan for the great work!

Visit Midwest Grows Green at https://midwestgrowsgreen.org/ for more information about their organization. As always, there is a tremendous amount of great information available on the IFSC website at www.illinoiscomposts.org .

Building a robust food scrap recycling industry in illinois The Illinois Food Scrap Coalition (IFSC) is a thriving not-for-profit organization advancing diversion and composting of organics in Illinois through advocacy, program implementation, market and business development, policy, and outreach. U...

05/03/2021

What a great privilege to be a guest on The Mike Nowak Show on Sunday, 5/2/21. The segment begins at 44:21 and runs through 1:33:43 is you want to "cut to the chase." Of course the first guests were amazing as well...so check them out! Benjamin.

Powered by Restream https://restream.io/Nicole Virgil returns to the show with good news about her Right to Garden campaign in the Illinois General Assembly....

04/30/2021

Hi Folks,
Mike Dimucci of Garden Prairie Organics and I will be guests on the Mike Nowak Show from about 9-10AM this Sunday, May 2nd, 2021. We will be discussing International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), the great week of Noontime Lunch and Learn Webinars IFSC and partners have prepared, and representing the Illinois Food Scrap Coalition, Compost and Composting, and the USCC-IL Chapter. I am very excited.
Where to watch?:
"We live stream on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheMikeNowakShow), on our YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/TheMikeNowakShow), on Periscope (Twitter) at www.twitter.com/MikeNow, and on our website, https://mikenowak.net. " Podcast drops on Monday or Tuesday (on iTunes for sure).

Don't miss the great ICAW programs. Please go to www.illinoiscomposts.org to review the agenda and speakers for the daily M 5/3-F 5/7 webinars and to register (free!...and a single registration and zoom link cover you for the whole week!).

Thanks!

Benjamin

Building a robust food scrap recycling industry in illinois The Illinois Food Scrap Coalition (IFSC) is a thriving not-for-profit organization advancing diversion and composting of organics in Illinois through advocacy, program implementation, market and business development, policy, and outreach. U...

04/16/2021

International Compost Awareness Week 2021 Event hosted by the Illinois Food Scrap Coalition and partners. FREE and open to the public. Registration at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOirqj0vGdG2Q891uFtFiUjjIx6dK9WU Daily webinar from 12-1PM May 3-7. Registration covers the entire event, so no need to register for each session individually. Recordings will be posted to Social Media in case you have to miss one or some and would like to catch up.

02/02/2021

Grows Green Week webinars feature 15+ different speakers. We asked each speaker why they will participate in this series of sustainable landscaping webinars. Read their responses at bit.ly/MGGwkWhy

Hear why you should attend MGG Week webinars from our speakers!Midwest Grows Green (MGG) Week webinars feature 15+ different speakers. So, we asked them why they will participate in this series of educational webinars. Here are their responses:March 22nd's "Adding an Organic Lawn Care Service to You...

12/04/2019

Patagonia is matching $ Donations to Midwest Grows Green through December 31, 2019! Please consider participating...I know I will be. Please follow the link below to help make a difference today.

Here is what Ryan Anderson of MGG has to say:
Dear Fellow Midwesterner,
Creating lawns and gardens that are safe for your children, your pets, your environs and yourself isn’t so hard. It's hard to change habits and mindsets, however.
That’s why Patagonia will match every dollar you donate to MGG between now and Dec 31, 2019. Each donation will help us reach our goal of helping 500 acres of parks and lawns transition away from pesticides. To help us keep you and yours safe, donate now.
Here’s to a safe 2020!

Act now! Make a donation to Midwest Grows Green at Patagonia Action Works.