"Build $$/value in the ecosystem. to support…Paid Jobs for Youth and…Infrastructure being built by and for communities that have been disinvested. Jobs & Entrepreneur opp(ortunities) supported and…"
Funding
"Potential to pursue Federal funding to pilot creative programs"
S OURCES OF M ATERIALS
"Connect more breweries with composting" Lots of food and landscape waste" "Opportunity to collect free larger food businesses like restaurants" “Chickens” "Composting all (most) landscape material"
(N EW ) P LACES TO P ROCESS & A CQUIRE C OMPOST
"Vacant lots, empty warehouses + factories. “make compost… available on many levels /big box stores, where to go, offer/list product) + landscapers" "Interactive map on where to buy compost toolkits, residential guide." "Institutions create quantity of waste exceeding 'capacity to process! Divert to hog farm instead." 7 "Partner with landfills to create facilities or divert compostables away from landfills" "For MAX scalability increased collaboration" Where is regional planning org? (e.g. CMAP) "Connect schools [to] industrial commercial-scale kitchens w/food pantries to use the excess food!" "Need more transparency with compost processors.” "Social Infrastructure for hyperlocal composting" "Agencies to move finished compost." "Collaboration with educational institutions and the public" "Passion exists among food producers in the region who need soil!!" "Ban all compostable organics from landfills (other states have)" "…logistics for hauling food. Scraps (waste) (compost) language" "Research-based recommendations and what to… compost for sustainable," "Have more commercial compost facilities USCC model Ordinance Language"
I NCREASE COLLABORATION
Policy to support infrastructure
T ABLE 9: S ELECTED C OMMENTS ON O PPORTUNITIES IN P OLICY Note: Comments are representative of the identified themes. Not all comments are displayed. R EQUIREMENTS FOR U SE AND W ASTE G ENERATORS Large food waste generators "Require all grocery foodservice businesses to compost.”
“If regulation and policies required composting by large generator it would make the system more efficient and affordable.” "Require all city and government agencies to use locally generated compost fill for public projects.” "Require composting for all public funded landscaping.” Government and park districts using compost so composting facilities can accept more waste. "Finished compost procurement requirement for all public/public-funded entities.”
Usage in public projects
7 Please note that there are serious food safety and disease issues with importing food scraps generated off site to feed farm animals. In fact, Illinois Public Act 48-7 prohibits feeding food scraps to farm animals unless they are sourced from the farm where the animal lives.
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