Webinar: Community-Scale Composting Systems with James McSweeney
Channel: Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Date: 2019-03-20

As communities, cities, and states push to divert food and other compostables from disposal, the demand for organics recycling infrastructure has never been greater. Yet for a multitude of reasons, there are few places where processing capacity aligns well with demand, and many sites find themselves undersized and lacking the tools to expand. Drawing from his newly released 2019 book Community-Scale Composting Systems and his experience working with hundreds of composters, large and small, James McSweeney will walk through core concepts related to planning compost site operational capacity. In scaling composting systems, the details matter. Every operation is different and relying on poor assumptions can create large problems, which are hard to recover from. This webinar will cover both conceptual and practical methods for understanding and planning food scrap composting capacity across different composting methodologies..