WHO WAS IN THE ROOM? The seventy-nine participants included commercial composters, non-profit professionals, educators, researchers, policy advocates, solid waste agencies, local governments, community composters, restaurants, and food scrap hauling services from Boone, Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. Participant name tags included names only (no titles or organizations) to give all participants an equal voice. Sixteen trained table facilitators from Illinois
Extension from Cook, Lake, McHenry, and Stephenson counties, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, and the US EPA guided and contributed to conversations at the tables throughout the day. Three professional facilitators from Daylight guided the entire process.
Summit attendees represented diverse sectors of the composting ecosystem with no one sector exceeding 20% of the atendees*
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15%
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*attendees could chose more than one sector
# of people
Participant demographics were collected during registration. Since some attendee substitutions were made the day of the event the reported demographics below may not be 100% accurate. Gender: 57% female, 37% male, 4% non-binary, 3% prefer not to respond. Age: 8% 18-29, 71% 30-59, 17% 60-75, 5% prefer not to respond/unknown. Race: 68% White, 11% Black/African American, 4% Asian, 14% prefer not to respond, 3% 2 or more races. Hispanic origin: 81% non-Hispanic, 9% Hispanic, 10% prefer not to respond/unknown.
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