Report: Greater Chicagoland Compost Summit

"Statewide OR Federal Standards policy people? (1)"

S TREAMLINE PROCESS OF COMPOST CREATION Municipal

"Find a waste hauler that has commercial composting capability and renegotiate contract when up (3)" "Incentivize training for sorting (4) "To be an end pt facilitator for food scraps (1)"

Community

“Decentralizing community composting infrastructure (1)" "Get people the leaves!" "More land access for feed stock storage"

Farm

"Subsidizing of compost operating for farms" "Direct ship and apply reduce dbl handling(1)"

Compost facility

I MPROVE C OMPOST P RODUCT ( S )

"Compost Quality Standard's Testing (6) "Transfer Station (Third party for excavated material) extra screeners? (3)"

D EMONSTRATION & R ESEARCH

"Cloverleaf of 4 plots? (1) "Collecting data for… /needs for finished compost (3)" "Study:+ Report Results (3)"

T ABLE 12: S ELECTED C OMMENTS ON P OLICY 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. Some topics may have received “votes” after the discussion period ended during the break after the report out and before the full group voted on the top action priorities. Action Topic 1: "policy of finished compost require use/manage of compost" (5) "Emphasis of getting finished compost to market." "Bill creating market for finished compost by requiring use for public landscape maintenance and new Development (3)" "Add this requirement: use % Compost to all City, County, State contracts " "Finished compost used in school gardens required" "Engage & educate private developer organizations (professional) (1)" ""Link using finished compost to stormwater management & erosion control (1)"

"Finished compost usage required for filling done by all private companies and developers" "Procurement Policy & RFP For City of Chicago updated to reflect separate collection (1)"

Action Topic 2: "yard waste is not being separated. enforcing yard waste ban" (2)

"Separate yard waste collection from garbage collection completely-could be handled by the Dept of Env. Instead of Streets & San" "Local News Bring to Public IEPA-CEPA (1)" "Get IEPA Inspectors on the City's case" “Establish a timeline for completing a legitimate system.” (1) "large-scale educational campaign for homeowners (maybe with the compost bags?)" Action Topic 3: "Require large/comm businesses to compost". "food service, groceries, institutions," (3) "USDA I DOT I PASS municipal Building Permit (4)" "Develop clear guidelines of what's in the compost, what's out." "Must be cost effective to business" "Change fruit stickers to being organic /compostable materials. (2)" Action topic 4 : "facilities using landscape waste accept food scrap waste permit"

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