Composting for Community

Composting for Community


Latest Episodes

“They Can’t Compete with Community”: How One Oklahoma Composter is Building Alternatives to Big Waste (ft. Terry Craghead)
April 17, 2025

In this episode, Terry Craghead, founder and CEO of Fertile Ground Cooperative, joins ILSRs host Jordan Ashby on the Composting for Community podcast to share how Fertile Ground went from competing on Big Wastes terms to creating a new set of terms alto

Lessons Learned from Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law (ft. Natasha Duarte)
July 31, 2024

On May 16, 2012, Vermont passed Act 148, creating a first-of-its-kind Universal Recycling Law. This historic law requires three categories of material to be separated and recycled: blue bin recyclables (such as plastics, paper, and glass), leaf and yard

Building Waste Equity at NYC Public Housing (ft. Domingo Morales)
June 25, 2024

How can we ensure composting is made accessible for all communities? How can composters implement the highest standards possible to prevent rodents in those communities? And what questions do the recent cuts to the NYC Compost Project raise that all compo

Community Composting’s Untapped Potential for Local Zero Waste & Climate Resilience Efforts (feat. Kourtnii Brown)
January 30, 2024

In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Kourtnii Brown, founder and director of Common Compost (Oakland, California) and CEO of the California Alliance for Community

Community Composter versus Incinerator in South Florida
September 28, 2023

What do we lose when we no longer have control over what happens to the waste we produce? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we speak to Melissa Corichi of Let It Rot, a communit

Community Composter versus Incinerator in South Florida
September 28, 2023

What do we lose when we no longer have control over what happens to the waste we produce? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we speak to Melissa Corichi of Let It Rot, a community composting business in Palm Beach County in South Flo

Composting for Food Sovereignty in Atlanta
March 21, 2023

What role does composting play in subverting barriers to local food sovereignty? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Khari Diop, an environmental educator, food s

Catalyzing Greater Equity Through Composting
September 19, 2022

How can a community reeling from multiple economic shocks use composting as a tool to build a more resilient food system? ILSRs Linda Bilsens Brolis talks to Renee V. Wallace of Detroit about composting as a tool for building equity and solving big chall

Cities’ Exclusive Agreements With Trash Collectors Are Holding Back Community Composters
April 27, 2022

ILSRs Jess Del Fiacco and Brenda Platt talk to three community composters in California who have been impacted by solid waste franchise districts.

Through Pedal-Power, Community Composters Cultivate Deeper Connections with their Community
January 21, 2022

In this episode, host Sophia Hosain is joined by Composting for Communitys intern Alondra Sierra and Elinor Crescenzi, an activist, organizer, and a founding member of the Food Cycle Collective in Pomona, California. Elinor talks about Pomonas collabora