- 2019 Impact Report
- 2019 Annual Report
- Food:Land:Opportunity Grant Update
- Renewing your 2020 Membership
- Which IFSC committee is right for you?
- Education Committee Spotlight
- Member Spotlights
- BioCycle CONNECT
- USCC Update
- 2020 meeting schedule
- Get ready for International Compost Awareness Week
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2nd Annual
Spring Social and Networking Event
Wednesday, March 18th 5-8pm
Wild Onion Tied House in Oak Park
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FACT: Illinois generates 19% more waste per capita than the average state in the United States. Only 35% of the material is recycled and 1.5% is composted.
Municipal food scrap programs are increasing, but finished compost sales are declining. Find out how you can
use finished compost.
Share the impact infographic with your contacts. For more detailed data, our IFSC Impact Report 2019 can be accessed on our website at IFSC Impact Report 2019 or
HERE. In it, you will find out what trends we are tracking and more about IFSC’s work in advocacy, programs, market development, and outreach.
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Our annual reports provide a brief overview of what we've been up to for the past year, including our highlighted projects and accomplishments, events attended, and growth in our signature programs.
Click
HERE to view the Illinois Food Scrap Coalition's 2019 annual report.
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Food:Land:Opportunity
Grant Update
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2020 brings another year of funding for projects that have advanced food scrap composting policy and infrastructure in Illinois through collaboration. Illinois Food Scrap Coalition is thankful to announce continued support through funding awarded to Seven Generations Ahead and a grant from Food:Land:Opportunity, a collaboration between Kinship Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust and funded through the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
Read the full update
HERE
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Please Renew Your Membership
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We count on your annual membership contributions to progress our work in food scrap diversion and composting.
Support us today to make a difference.
A warm thank you to all members and partners who have renewed!
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Our Sustainable Journey
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SILVER SUSTAINING PARTNERS
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71 S. Wacker Drive
Cook County
Facebook
Illinois Environmental Council
Kane County
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Midwest Grows Green
Mindful Waste
Vegware
Waste Management of Illinois
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Ben Killman
Garrett Lapsys
Joy Scrogum
Mark Teegen
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McNabb Broders
Monica Chia Chian Chen
Steven Schilling
Victoria Harris
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Find Out Which IFSC Committee is Right For You...
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The Education Committee Sees Room for Growth
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The IFSC sure was busy in 2019. For all the work we have done, there is still a need to continue and expand upon our work.A look ahead at 2020 offers us a blank slate and renewed time to develop member and stakeholder ideas that were recently brainstormed at our Fall Forum. We look forward to continued progress to advance diversion and composting of organics.
Read the full article
HERE
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Collective Resource Compost
Effective January 1, 2020, Collective Resource Compost has entered into a municipal franchise agreement with the Village of Skokie to provide their container swapout food scrap collection service at a reduced rate. This is Skokie's first village-wide composting program, as they do not have a yard cart tagalong like some other cities. Skokie is the second municipality to enter into a franchise agreement with the Evanston-based company. Their hometown of Evanston entered into a franchise agreement with them in November 2017.
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Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
THE ZERO WASTE PARTNERSHIP CONTINUES, with CBBEL (an IFSC Silver Sustaining Partner) and Bright Beat
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Pumpkin Composting is a smash!
The final tally is in! In total, smashers composted over 123 tons of pumpkins from 51 sites! That knocks the 90 tons from 2018 out of the park, way to go!
Check out the results
blog post for more info on greenhouse gas emissions and water saved as well as photos. Thank you
SCARCE for organizing another fantastic year of pumpkin composting.
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Sign up for BioCycle CONNECT
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Launching in January 2020, a new BioCycle for a new decade. BioCycle CONNECT is a free e-issue that brings real-time access to the tools, knowledge and networks crucial to successful implementation of best-in-class organics recycling programs — delivered to email inboxes 48 times per year. BioCycle CONNECT continues BioCycle’s 60-year leadership as the Organics Recycling Authority, and accompanies the decision to transition from a print to digital platform in 2020. To sign-up for this free, one-of-a-kind resource, go to
http://bit.ly/biocycleconnect and enter your email.
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The US Composting Council will hold its annual conference “Bridging the Gap for Organics Recovery “ in Charleston, South Carolina from January 26th through the 31st, 2020. More information can be found at
HERE
Is it compostable? The US Composting Council held a webinar on the topic of compostable items appropriate for recycling into compost. The webinar can be found
here.
Kimberly-Clark Professional, the US Composting Council (USCC) and
Keep America Beautiful produced the
Guide to Workplace Composting to help organizations develop workplace composting programs that support sustainability, waste reduction and zero waste initiatives.
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Did you know? The IFSC has monthly meeting via conference call so anyone can join. Meetings are on the first Monday of the month, unless otherwise noted. 2020 meeting dates: 2/3, 3/2, 4/6, 5/4, 6/12, (July newsletter in lieu of meeting), 8/3, 9/14 (2nd Monday), 10/5, 11/2, 12/7
NOTE: our call-in information has changed!
How to connect
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Via phone:
Call in number: 929-436-2866
Access code: 342377608#
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International Compost Awareness Week
May 3-9, 2020
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The ICAW Committee of the Compost Council Research & Education Foundation, is pleased to announce the winning design for ICAW 2020
"Soil Loves Compost"
ICAW is a globally celebrated, comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry. Since 1995, ICAW has continued to grow as the importance of composting and the long-term benefits from organics recycling is recognized. This program raises public awareness of the benefits of compost to improve or maintain high quality soil, to grow healthy plants, reduce the use of fertilizer and pesticides, improve water quality and protect the environment.
Learn more about ICAW
HERE.
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Get your FREE copy of the poster and stickers!
We have a limited supply of posters and stickers with the 2020 design to give away. Please reply to this email with your interest stating if you would like both a poster and stickers, how many stickers you would like, and the address you would like your poster and stickers shipped to. Posters and stickers will be given on a first come, first serve basis.
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Illinois Food Scrap Coalition
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