This month’s leadership column comes from USCC Board Member John Janes of Caterpillar, where he heads up industry alignment to composting and green industries, as well as the training and education of new Caterpillar professionals. This month, he writes on the waste of waiting and how processes can be refined to achieve real savings.
If you’re in a position of buying/budgeting for equipment or marketing compost, this is a good reading month for you! Check out these blogs about how to save yourself a lot of headaches from your clientele by properly using the STA Certified Compost Directions for Use.
We're proud to share that Casey Funke of Eco-Products, Grant Williamson of The Ground Up and Aleksander Jagiello have each received their CCOM/CCP certifications from USCC.
 
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Hot on the heels of last month's sweeping national plastic pollution proposal, there's a new federal waste bill in town. The Zero Waste Act, introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. as a "key part of the Green New Deal," would provide up to $250 million in funding for "zero waste" initiatives - including organics recycling infrastructure, e-waste recycling or reuse, source reduction and market development.
Kroger is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to set industry standards that would eliminate food waste. The head of the EPA met with company leaders today to hear what the roadblocks are. The grocery chain says it wants to end hunger in communities it serves and eliminate waste by 2025.
Conventional agriculture was targeted in the most recent repor tfrom the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in which a panel of 100 scientists concur not only that the food system contributes 37% of greenhouse gases, but also that a more sustainable agriculture can help address global warming.
Summer music festivals bring out huge crowds of people who celebrate, revel and generate tons of waste. To make these multi-day events more sustainable, several festivals across the county have committed to making waste diversion part of the package.
It’s time to register to get the Early Bird Registration/Member Discount rate for COMPOST2020 in Charleston, SC, from Jan. 28 to 31, 2020. You won’t want to miss this: our theme is Bridging the Gap For Organics Recovery. It will be our first trade show in a major convention center where you can see composting equipment indoors, as well as our annual Live Demonstration Day on the last day.
Our keynote speaker, Katharine Wilkinson, is vice president of Project Drawdown, and we have a host of high impact panels discussing everything from organics recycling policy to the business of running a facility or program to climate change and carbon sequestration impacts of compost.
Click here to register today!
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The Virginia Composting Council was originally formed in 2014 and had a re-birth in 2018 with a new board of directors and president, Ken Bannister of Draper-Aden Associates. About 10 chapter leaders and members met in July at Bannister’s office in Richmond, VA.
Congratulations to the team at BioCycle, who not only publish the USCC’s official magazine with JG Press but have also led in analysis, data collection, events and expansion of the compost industry for 60 years! All members should read their July issue cover to cover to see how the compost manufacturing industry has evolved over the years and learn about early trailblazers! Thank you, BioCycle!
Certain assets of Harvest New England LLC and Harvest Mid-Atlantic LLC compost, mulch and soil operations in Connecticut and Maryland have been purchased by WeCare Denali through its wholly owned subsidiary, WeCare Denali, LLC, said Andy McNeill, president and CEO.
USA Waste of California, Inc., dba Waste Management, has acquired two Harvest Power California, LLC compost facilities located in Tulare and Lathrop, CA. Each compost site is permitted to take up to 156,000 tons of organics per year.
Welcome to all our new members for August!
It is with great sadness that we note the recent untimely death of Trish Andre of Andre Farms, Ohio, who was killed in a car accident. Trish was an agronomist, a farmer, Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) and past Extension Advisory Committee member and chair. She was a passionate 4-H advisor of the Pettisville Ever-Ready 4-H Club, active in Wauseon FFA Alumni and volunteer for many things in her community with her husband Nate. Our thoughts are with the Andre family.
The EPA solicits applications under the EPA Sustainable Materials Management Program for the benefit of the EPA Region 2 areas of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. While an application submitted must benefit Puerto Rico and/or the U.S. Virgin Islands, it may also benefit areas elsewhere in EPA Region 2 (i.e., New York, New Jersey).
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers competitively awarded grants to qualified small businesses to support high quality research related to important scientific problems and opportunities in agriculture that could lead to significant public benefits. Projects dealing with agriculturally related manufacturing and alternative and renewable energy technologies are encouraged across all SBIR topic areas.
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