Report: Greater Chicagoland Compost Summit

"Develop International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW)…activities for schools (2)" "Train teachers to teach students! who does training? -Community orgs -urban farms close by- community gardeners (1)" "Identify who makes the standards, IL State Ed Board, Advocate for Composting Education (2)" "Reach out to Principals/school admin. (Top-down approach!). Discuss hiring & compost (3)" "Adding Compost to Public School Curriculum (4)"

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"Testimonials from industry peers" "Collaborate w/universities/experts) nonprofits, etc. to create free & accessible resources (5)" "Education materials that highlight: Success in Case studies (of) economics demonstration of system(3)" "Convene industry experts to identify best practices for backyard composting… (1)" "Publicly available demonstration systems (that are operating successfully) (1)" "Locate + evaluate composting education resources" "Identify current level of understanding" "Teaching those that write hauling contract about what should be included. Educating institutions businesses etc. (5)" "Standardize info sharing b/w all parties. Contract language for hauling contracts (1)" "Require transparency between haulers & waste producers: -where is the food waste going exactly? (1)" "Information Sharing b/w Composters, haulers & back. What can Composters accept? Through line between generators Composters etc. (3)" "Build database of Compost producers. ts & what they Can or cannot accept. (2)"

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T ABLE 11: S ELECTED C OMMENTS ON I NFRASTRUCTURE A CTIONS Note: Comments are representative of the identified themes. Not all comments are displayed. Numbers in parentheses (1) indicate the number of ‘votes’ received to prioritize for discussions. The numbers do not indicate that one action item is more worthy than another. I NCREASE AND I MPROVE O PPORTUNITIES TO C OMPOST

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"Pick-up/Drop Off at farmers markets or farm stores (1)" "Keep it simple (veggies / fruit) then Build Start as opt-in program. (2)" Pilot programs + a lot of compost (3)" "To address my ""concern about curbside pickup service in the town hall meeting" More places "Example Crystal Lake Compost food scraps w/ landscape" Pursue commercial composting access -> affordable "Who pays? How much is affordable?" "(faster) deploy curbside compost residential curbside →low cost/no cost drop off for residents (4)" "Communal composting drop off (res + biz) (3)" "Incentivize individual residents to adopt composting (i.e. drop offs) (1)" "Food Scrap Drop off sites” "MOBILE DROP OFF LOCATIONS" INCREASE Drop-off Locations EQUITABLY" "DROP OFF-> HAVE 2 Compost"

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