Compost Happens – January 2025
What is happening to the food waste collected under California’s recycling law?
Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: Dual Strategies to Secure Food for 2050
By 2050, the world will need to feed nearly 10 billion people, a feat complicated by climate change, dwindling natural resources, and the growing fragility of global food systems
Your recycled pee may be better for crops than synthetic fertilizer
New research further supports the benefits of swapping out artificial additives for human urine.
https://www.popsci.com/science/pee-fertilizer/
Human composting is rising in popularity as an earth-friendly life after death
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/29/climate/human-composting/index.html
ENVIRONMENTALLY SPEAKING: Let’s reduce food waste in 2025
It’s all about “recycling”—from soup to nuts.
https://theberkshireedge.com/environmentally-speaking-lets-reduce-food-waste-in-2025/
10 Ways Food Policy Shapes Climate Change and Sustainable Solutions
How This Urban Farm Creates 300,000 lbs of Compost by Hand | Watch – MSN
This NYC urban farm uses large piles of food waste to create compost.
How Trump’s USDA, EPA & HHS Appointees Will Affect Food Systems
While much is still speculative, here’s what we might expect.
https://sentientmedia.org/trumps-appointees-food-systems/
Making a Compost Comeback
https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2024/12/12/making-compost-comeback
Rising desertification shows we can’t keep farming with fossil fuels
Trump’s Deportation Plans Spark Concern Among U.S. Farmers and Food Supply Experts
Mass deportations could exacerbate agricultural labor shortages, leaving farms vulnerable and disrupting the nation’s food system.
Can an ancient farming method improve sustainability?
Researchers say plot-and-berm method could address current challenges of water scarcity and food insecurity, especially in arid areas.
https://www.israel21c.org/can-an-ancient-farming-method-improve-sustainability/
The challenge of food waste recycling
https://americanrecycler.com/the-challenge-of-food-waste-recycling/
Zero Waste Strategies Tackles Liability Fears in Food Donation
https://foodtank.com/news/2024/12/zero-waste-strategies-tackles-liability-fears-in-food-donation/
Holiday compost can help metro Atlanta farmers
(3 minute video)
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/holiday-compost-can-help-metro-atlanta-farmers
Montreal Opens It’s Own Organic Waste Processing Facility
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/organic-waste-processing-facility
Southold Looking for 100 Participants for Community Composting Program
Gardening for a healthier life and a healthier planet
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/gardening-for-a-healthier-life-and-a-healthier-planet/
Natural Farming will Reduce Health Risks
Integrate urban wet waste composting into the National Mission on Natural Farming to meet the compost demand of farmers. Decentralized Waste Management: Promote city-farmer partnerships for local composting solutions.
https://brighterkashmir.com/news/natural-farming-will-reduce-health-risks-69810.html
Maryland Farmer Workshop to Serve as Part of National Replicable Model
https://ilsr.org/articles/maryland-farmer-workshop-to-serve-as-part-of-national-replicable-model/
USDA Invests More than $7.5 Million in Composting and Food Waste Reduction Projects
Simple but Fertile: Sima Transfers Pomegranate, Fruit Peel to Compost
https://kirkuknow.com/en/fromPeople/821
Regenerative farming and no-till works out for Engels