Home Composting Guide

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Julie Cook Kitchener May 22, 2025 12:18 pm
Hi all,    Spring is a great time of year to begin composting. Whether you work for local government, a non-profit, a company, a school, or otherwise, now is the time to encourage…

Reducing contamination in composting

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Julie Cook Kitchener Apr 14, 2025 12:44 pm
Hi all,    How can we reduce contamination in community compost bins? The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) sought to tackle this question in its latest webinar on the topi…

Cool Block - New Case Study Published on the Tools of Change Website

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Feb 10, 2025 15:55 pm
Cool Block promotes over one hundred actions that can help make households, neighborhoods and entire cities more sustainable. It has been saving 20 billion pounds (9.07 million me…

Focus Group Resources

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Cara Murray Baltimore Jun 24, 2024 17:46 pm
I'm looking for resources for choosing, setting up, and running focus groups in Baltimore City. Do you have case studies or project plans for successful focus groups? Resources fo…

Elementary School Composting - Best Practices

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Meg Martineau Carlisle Aug 24, 2021 15:46 pm
Hi everyone,    I’m super excited to be implementing a composting initiative at my local elementary school. I’m using techniques from Doug’s book, but I wanted to know everyone’s …

Keeping Leaf Litter out of Stormwater Drains - Seeking Tested Strategies.

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Plaxy McCulloch Jun 12, 2020 7:23 am
Hi, I am looking for successful strategies used to increase collection of leaf litter before it blows onto roads and down stormwater drains. Follow up behaviours could be composti…

Messaging: Curbside Food Scrap Recycling

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Caitlin Newman Port Orchard Mar 15, 2017 18:34 pm
Seeking literature on which benefits of curbside food scrap recycling or composting most resonate with people. Trying to narrow down a long list... Caitlin Newman Solid Waste Edu…

Composting Barrier & Benefit Research

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Hilary Boudet Corvallis Jul 27, 2015 16:36 pm
To increase residential composting among Corvallis residents, Dr. Hilary Boudets Applied Research Methods class at Oregon State University conducted research in partnership with …

Curbside Organic Collection Programs

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Kaitlin Phelps New York City May 1, 2015 9:15 am
Hello! I am looking to gain a better understanding of the barriers participants face when considering engaging with a Curbside Organics Collection Program and how best to assist t…

Barriers & Benefits to Backyard Composting and Farming in Rural Households.

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Unknown Mar 17, 2015 20:32 pm
I am trying to come up with a survey questionnaire to identify barriers and benefits to backyard composting and farming in rural households in the United States. Anu Aryal Gra…

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