18th Annual Vermont Organics Recycling Summit
COMPOST… Nature’s Climate Champion!
April 29th-May 3rd, 2024
The 2024 Vermont Organics Recycling Summit (a “kick-off” event, one week before International Compost Awareness Week) will include an in-person program, with a hybrid morning plenary, on Monday, April 29th, in Waterbury, VT, followed by a virtual program from Tuesday, April 30 - May 3rd.
This year, VORS will highlight the many roles of composting and compost use in climate change adaptation through sequestering carbon in the soil, enhancing soil health, promoting sustainable agriculture practices, promoting water conservation, reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers, and nurturing biodiversity. Local management of food scraps and organic resources empowers communities to take action and build resilience in the face of climate challenges.
Monday’s Keynote: Dr. Sally Brown
Dr. Sally Brown is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Washington in Seattle and a Fellow in the Soil Science Society of America. She was recently appointed to the USDA Committee on Urban and Innovative Agriculture and writes the Connections column for Biocycle. Sally focuses on soil amendments, in situ remediation, and carbon sequestration. With her research partners, she has worked on studies involving soil health, climate change mitigation, biosolids recycling, and wastewater treatment. She contributed to ILSR's Compost Climate Connections Webinar Series (Compost Sequesters Carbon & Delivers Other Ecosystem Benefits) and co-authored CREF's publication The Compost & Climate Connection. Her field studies and papers on the carbon storage potential of soils applied with organic residuals are available here. She has authored dozens of published papers on the benefits of compost.
International Compost Awareness Week posters from students in Dr. Deb Neher’s Compost Ecology and Management class.
Click on the posters to read about the students’ inspiration for their creations.
Special thanks to Eco-Products and Prohibition Pig for sponsoring our Monday “Compost Mixer” at Prohibition Pig Brewery in Waterbury, VT.
Thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors!
Thanks to our food sponsors!
Interested in sponsoring VORS 2024?
We have three levels of sponsorship available:
“Black Gold” Sponsor: $1,500 (includes most prominent placement of logo/link and additional acknowledgement; includes table, four comp'ed registration fees)
Sustaining Sponsor: $500 (includes more prominent placement of logo/link; includes table, two comp'ed registration fees)
Sponsor/Exhibitor: $200 (includes table, one comp'ed registration fee)
Logos and website links for Sponsors are included in promotion, on event and organization websites, and through our social media. We estimate VORS annual electronic promotion reaches 10,000+ individuals.
For more information, contact Natasha@CompostingVermont.org
VORS is hosted by the Composting Association of Vermont and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Composting Association of Vermont (CAV) is a nonprofit organization that promotes organics recycling that protects and benefits the environment.
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation (ANR/DEC) is dedicated to protecting and improving the health of Vermont’s people and ecosystems and promoting the sustainable use of Vermont’s natural resources.