Where You Live | Composting | US EPA
A number of states across the nation have implemented yard waste composting programs.
Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream. That's a lot of waste to send to landfills when it could become useful and environmentally beneficial compost instead!
Composting offers the obvious benefits of resource efficiency and creating a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled. On this web site, you will learn about the following:
* Basic Information - provides a general description of what compost is and which materials should and should not be composted.
* Where You Live - contains information about regional and state composting programs.
* Organic Materials - provides more detailed information about the specific materials good for composting.
* Frequent Questions - presents frequent questions about how and why you should compost.
* Laws/Statutes - discusses regulations for organics materials and composting facilities.
* Environmental Benefits - explains how composting benefits the environment.
* Science/Technology - discusses how the composting process works and the different methods of composting, such as creating your own composting pile
* Publications - contains a list of composting and related publications.
Contact Information
US EPA
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (5305P)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
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