Category: Business

BUS.242-Lamoille Soil – The Perfect Trifecta of Regulation, Infrastructure, and Money-AC24.USCC

Vermont’s legislature unanimously passed a pioneering statewide ban on food scraps from its only landfill, driven by concerns over climate change and limited landfill space. The ban, phased in gradually, required separation of food scraps from waste. LRSWMD, managing five facilities for various materials but lacking composting, faced the challenge of incorporating food scraps. After… Continue reading BUS.242-Lamoille Soil – The Perfect Trifecta of Regulation, Infrastructure, and Money-AC24.USCC

BUS.125-Pennsylvania’s New Urban Composting Permit-AC24.USCC

Bennett Compost, established in 2009, faced challenges due to the lack of a permit for processing compost in urban environments. However, through a partnership with Philly Parks & Rec, they developed Pennsylvania’s first small-scale composting permit and built the state’s first urban composting facility. In a unique arrangement, Bennett Compost utilizes a former maintenance facility… Continue reading BUS.125-Pennsylvania’s New Urban Composting Permit-AC24.USCC

BUS.124-Non-Compost Competing Products, and How to Sell Against Them-AC24.USCC

In today’s competitive compost marketplace, marketers must assess their product against various alternatives like manure or worm castings. Understanding compost’s applications, advantages, and drawbacks is crucial. Moreover, marketers need to position their compost effectively against these alternatives to increase market share.Speakers: Ron AlexanderDuration: 29 minutesCredits: 0.5Member Price: $30.00Non-Member Price: $52.50Purchase Course Now

BUS.237-The Business Case for Composting-AC23.USCC

CET has helped numerous businesses translate theory into action, and thus will present the business case for composting. Utilizing success stories, CET will walk through strategies to make this business case by right-sizing containers, maximizing prevention and donation opportunities, and increasing recycling rates.Speakers: Coryanne MansellDuration: 15 minutesCredits: 0.5Member Price: $30.00Non-Member Price: $52.50Purchase Course Now

BUS.238-Bringing Commercial Composting to Non-Composting Regions: A case Study of Composting in Nassau, Bahamas-AC23.USCC

How to introduce commercial scale composting in a place that has never done it before and is not “set up” to do it from a regulatory or system perspective: operational and business lessons learned, public education and outreach, innovative compost applications.Speakers: Geoffrey StarinDuration: 19 minutesCredits: 0.5Member Price: $30.00Non-Member Price: $52.50Purchase Course Now

BUS.121-School Food Waste Composting and Reusables Program-AC23.USCC

That you, whomever you are, who is interested in helping your community with waste diversion and composting, can absolutely start this program in your local schools. We will provide the educational resources and “how-to” guide to do this. This program works wonders with normalizing composting and waste diversion with youth.Speakers: Gretchen LosanoDuration: 29 minutesCredits: 0.5Member… Continue reading BUS.121-School Food Waste Composting and Reusables Program-AC23.USCC

BUS.240-Developing Community-based Composting in an Urban Setting-AC23.USCC

– Development of a replicable model for community-based composting. – Multi-stakeholder collaboration, representing universities, non-profits, and local neighborhood to build a hub and spoke organics diversion and community composting system to help meet the demand and supply needs of a large urban city.Speakers: Renee WallaceDuration: 18 minutesCredits: 0.5Member Price: $30.00Non-Member Price: $52.50Purchase Course Now