Tons of organic waste including food residuals, yard clippings, paper, and woody debris are sent to the landfill every year. Treat your organic discarded materials as resources, not waste, and balance your waste diversion and recycling goals with economic feasibility and environmental sustainability.

This program examines the merits of organic recycling and explores ways that source-separated organic discards are being recycled or composted by some communities who are striving to achieve their goals of waste reduction and diversion through curbside organics recycling programs.

After viewing this program, participants will better be able to:

• Understand the value and costs of including organic recycling in their integrated waste management systems
• Develop a broad-based understanding of how organics recycling fits into optimizing materials management
• Communicate the benefits and operations of organics recycling to their communities