This recorded keynote, “Keep it local for better compost,” from Brenda Platt of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance was part of the 2023 Vermont Organics Recycling Summit (VORS).

Video time stamps:

• 00:00 VORS introduction from Natasha Duarte

• 02:38 Keynote from Brenda Platt, Director of the Composting for Community Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Download the 2023 Keynote slide deck (pdf)

Additional resources shared:

• ILSR Independent Business Initiative

• Report: Dollar Stores Are Targeting Struggling Urban Neighborhoods and Small Towns. One Community Is Showing How to Fight Back

• Report: The Dollar Store Invasion

• More information about big box stores from ILSR

• Vermont’s Priorities for Food & Food Scraps

• Compost infographics from ILSR

• ILSR’s Community Composting Initiative

• ILSR Community Composting Map

• A Growing Movement: 2022 Community Composter Census

• Podcast: Stop Privileging Large Industrial Sites Over Local Composters — Episode 125 of Building Local Power

• WasteDive: As organics depackager equipment market grows, so do concerns over microplastics contamination

• OceanWise: Microplastics Have Found Their Way into Our Compost

• VPRIG: Vermont Says NO To Single-Use Plastics

• The World: This Indian meal service is so efficient it’s the envy of FedEx

• Burlington Free Press: Vermonters shatter record for simultaneous dish washing

• Seven Days: Tiny Hardwick Breaks a Dishwashing World Record

• Upstream: Why compostables and bioplastics aren’t the answer

• https://upstream.org/

• https://www.reuseseattle.org/

• DC Department of Energy & Environment: Ditch the Disposables