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May 16, 2012
Iowa State Governor declares May 6-12 International Compost Awareness Week

May 16, 2012 Governor Announces Annual International Composting Awareness Week In the State of Iowa, [...]

May 15, 2012
Call for Presentations Issued for Annual Composting Conference
May 11, 2012
Vermont Passes Statewide Recycling Law

May 11, 2012 – An organic waste ban, along with other recycling mandates, will become [...]

February 9, 2012
US Composting Council’s Annual Conference Inspires and Educates while Producing “Zero Waste”

(Ronkonkoma, NY) For the 20th year practitioners and supporters of commercial-scale composting came together for [...]

February 1, 2012
USCC’s 20th Annual Conference & Trade Show Another successful event ‘in the books’!

Ronkonkoma, New York – January 30, 2012 – The USCC’s 20th Annual Conference and Trade [...]

January 2, 2012
Fall 2011 Pre-Conference Edition Newsletter is here!

This Pre-Conference edition of the Compost Communicator features a Conference “Sneak Preview”, Learn about Austin [...]

October 25, 2011
Composting Council: An Ongoing Commitment to Safety at Composting Facilities

RONKONKOMA, NEW YORK – Recently two young men died in a tragic accident at Community [...]

September 30, 2011
Summer Newsletter is (finally) here!

Meet the new Executive Director, Members Profile: Target Marketing Group, STA Spotlight: Black Gold Compost, [...]

September 18, 2011
US Composting Council Announces the Hiring of its New Executive Director

RONKONKOMA, NEW YORK (September 16, 2011) – The United States Composting Council (USCC) is delighted [...]

August 28, 2011
Organics in the News

E-news Vol 2 No 5

August 7, 2011
DuPont Suspends Sales of Imprelis and Sends a Voluntary Recall Notice to Industry

DuPont Co. is pulling a new herbicide from the market, after it was blamed for [...]

July 11, 2011
Organics in the News

E-news Vol 4 No 2

July 5, 2011
RFP Released to Develop Issue Paper on Bioreactors and In-Situ Composting

The Climate Action Reserve has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop an issue [...]

June 7, 2011
Organics in the News

E-News No.2 Vol.3

May 25, 2011
New Herbicide Threatens to Contaminate Compost

(Ronkonkoma, NY – May 25, 2011) The U.S. Composting Council (USCC) is warning composters to [...]

May 5, 2011
Orange County, NC, Issues RFP for Food and Organic Waste Collection

ORANGE COUNTY, NC, is seeking proposals for collection and disposal services for the County’s Food [...]

Organics In the News

E-News Vol 2 No. 2

April 28, 2011
Spring Newsletter from the USCC

The Spring issue of the Compost Communicator includes Best of the Listserve, new member welcome, [...]

February 18, 2011
U.S. Composting Council’s 19th Annual Conference & Trade Show – Bigger & Better Than Ever!

The USCC 19th Annual Conference and Trade Show was another huge success. More than 1,100 [...]

January 31, 2011
Winner of Annual ICAW Poster Contest Connects People, Nature and Compost

A gifted art student has been recognized by the US Composting Council as the International [...]

January 14, 2011
Winter 2011 Compost Communicator is here!

This is the Conference Edition of the Compost Communicator, with the full 19th Annual Conference [...]

September 2, 2010
E-News #5

A summary of newsworthy items affecting the composting and organics recycling industries