Across the country, the community composting movement is growing! Local composting provides immediate opportunities for reducing waste, improving soil health, creating jobs, and fighting climate change.

On the Composting for Community Podcast, we bring you stories from the people doing this work on the ground and in the soil. Guests talk shop about their composting projects, and share their inspirations and lessons learned.

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Community Composting’s Untapped Potential for Local Zero Waste & Climate Resilience Efforts (feat. Kourtnii Brown)

Community Composting’s Untapped Potential for Local Zero Waste & Climate Resilience Efforts (feat. Kourtnii Brown)

Linda Bilsens Brolis

January 30, 2024

In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Kourtnii Brown, founder and director of Common Compost (Oakland, California) and CEO of the California Alliance for Community Composting. We discuss the immense potential of community composting to scale up and meet diversion goals based on the  READ MORE


Previous Episodes

Community Composter versus Incinerator in South Florida

Community Composter versus Incinerator in South Florida

Linda Bilsens Brolis

September 28th, 2023

What do we lose when we no longer have control over what happens to the waste we produce? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we speak to Melissa Corichi of Let It Rot, a community composting business in Palm Beach County in South Florida about her battle against the incinerators in her community.  READ MORE


Composting for Food Sovereignty in Atlanta

Composting for Food Sovereignty in Atlanta

Linda Bilsens Brolis

March 21st, 2023

What role does composting play in subverting barriers to local food sovereignty? In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Khari Diop, an environmental educator, food security activist, and fifth-generation food grower from Atlanta.  READ MORE


Catalyzing Greater Equity Through Composting

Catalyzing Greater Equity Through Composting

Linda Bilsens Brolis

September 19th, 2022

How can a community reeling from multiple economic shocks use composting as a tool to build a more resilient food system? ILSR’s Linda Bilsens Brolis talks to Renee V. Wallace of Detroit about composting as a tool for building equity and solving big challenges.  READ MORE


Cities’ Exclusive Agreements With Trash Collectors Are Holding Back Community Composters

Cities’ Exclusive Agreements With Trash Collectors Are Holding Back Community Composters

Brenda Platt

April 27th, 2022

ILSR’s Jess Del Fiacco and Brenda Platt talk to three community composters in California who have been impacted by solid waste franchise districts.  READ MORE


Through Pedal-Power, Community Composters Cultivate Deeper Connections with their Community

Through Pedal-Power, Community Composters Cultivate Deeper Connections with their Community

Sophia Hosain

January 21st, 2022

Sophia Hosain is joined by Composting for Community’s intern Alondra Sierra and Elinor Crescenzi, an activist, organizer, and a founding member of the Food Cycle Collective in Pomona, California.  READ MORE


Composting Connects Black and Latinx Youth to their Roots

Composting Connects Black and Latinx Youth to their Roots

Sophia Hosain

December 20th, 2021

In this episode of the Composting for Community podcast, Nando Rodriguez, environmental facilitator at The Brotherhood Sister Sol, shares with us the various ways he engages youth in composting activities. He also dives into the role that environmental practices for Black and Latinx youth play in helping preserve and honor their cultural roots.   READ MORE


Compost Helps Local Farm Build Healthy Soils & Feed Their Community (feat. Moon Valley Farm)

Compost Helps Local Farm Build Healthy Soils & Feed Their Community (feat. Moon Valley Farm)

Linda Bilsens Brolis

November 30th, 2021

On this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, ILSR's Linda Bilsens Brolis and Sophia Hosain speak with Emma Jagoz, owner of Moon Valley Farm in Maryland.  READ MORE


Local Compost Enterprise Cultivates a Just and Healthy Community (Episode 102)

Local Compost Enterprise Cultivates a Just and Healthy Community (Episode 102)

Jess Del Fiacco

June 11th, 2020

In this episode of Building Local Power, host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Brenda Platt, Director of ILSR's Composting for Community Initiative, and Kesiah Bascom, founder of OffBeet Compost.  READ MORE


Implementing COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Food Scrap Drop-Off: Spotlight on the Community Compost Depot at Frey Gardens in Providence

Implementing COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Food Scrap Drop-Off: Spotlight on the Community Compost Depot at Frey Gardens in Providence

Virginia Streeter

May 21st, 2020

On this episode, ILSR’s Brenda Platt dialogues with Michael Bradlee, President of Earth Appliance Organics in Providence, Rhode Island, to discuss how one community composter is continuing to collect and compost food scraps with new safety protocols in place.  READ MORE