Composting - Helpful links with resources
Composting - Helpful website links with resources:
- United Nations (UN) Environment Programme - How composting can reduce our impact on the planet: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-composting-can-reduce-our-impact-planet
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Composting Food Waste: Keeping a Good Thing Going: https://www.epa.gov/snep/composting-food-waste-keeping-good-thing-going
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Composting Food Waste: Keeping a Good Thing Going (infographic): https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/composting-food-waste-keeping-good-thing-going-2.jpg
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Reducing the Impact of Wasted Food by Feeding the Soil and Composting: https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/reducing-impact-wasted-food-feeding-soil-and-composting
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Sustainable Management of Food Basics: https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/sustainable-management-food-basics
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - From Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste (includes image): https://www.epa.gov/land-research/farm-kitchen-environmental-impacts-us-food-waste
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Composting: https://www.usda.gov/peoples-garden/food-access-food-waste/composting
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - Composting & Organics: https://www.mass.gov/composting-organics
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - Why Should I Compost? (Infographic): https://www.mass.gov/doc/infographic-why-should-i-compost/download
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - Home Composting for Zero Waste (Everything You Wanted to Know about Composting But Were Afraid to Ask, 4/20/21): https://www.mass.gov/doc/presentation-home-composting-for-zero-waste/download
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - Home Composting Tips: A Guide to Composting Yard & Food Waste: https://www.mass.gov/doc/home-composting-tips-a-guide-to-composting-yard-food-waste/download
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - Composting is Easy: https://www.mass.gov/doc/poster-composting-is-easy/download
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Schenectady County - Compost Resources: https://schenectady.cce.cornell.edu/gardening/compost-resources
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Thompkins County – Quick-Start Guide to Compost: https://ccetompkins.org/resources/compost-quick-start-guide-to-compost
- National Public Radio (NPR) - Composting can help fight climate change. Get started in 5 easy steps: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/07/828918397/how-to-compost-at-home
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) - Composting 101: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/composting-101
Video clips about Composting:
- SciToons - Brown University - Why is Composting Good for the Environment?: https://youtu.be/oFlsjRXbnSk
- Better Homes & Gardens - How to Make Compost to Feed Your Plants and Reduce Waste: https://www.bhg.com/gardening/yard/compost/how-to-compost/
- Black Earth Compost - The Why, What, and How of Composting with Black Earth Compost (For Residential/Privately paid pickup): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlvKgywcwYg