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April 5th
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There’s just a month until the start of International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) 2024 – the best time of year to share the many benefits of composting our yard waste and food scraps and using compost to build healthy soils. Be a climate champion and start making your plans to get the word out about ICAW this May 5-11. Check out activities, events, and lots of other resources on the CREF website: https://compostfoundation.org/ICAW/ICAW-Home

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April 12th
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What does this year’s International Compost Awareness Week theme mean – COMPOST…Nature’s Climate Champion? The theme highlights the role compost plays with reducing the impact of climate change by:

• Decreasing methane: A greenhouse gas more than twenty-five times as impactful as carbon dioxide, methane can be significantly reduced through recycling organics.
• Climate change mitigation: Compost’s return to the soil serves as a “carbon bank,” helping to store carbon and offering an answer to climate change mitigation.
• Reducing fertilizer needs: Compost improves soil water holding capacity, decreasing the need for synthetic fertilizers by slowly releasing nutrients over time, and enhances healthy soil conditions
• Increasing resilience: Compost helps to increase resilience to the effects of climate change such as drought and extreme weather.

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#icaw2024, #naturesclimatechampion, #compost

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April 22nd
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This year’s Earth Day theme is PLANET vs. PLASTIC, bringing everyone together to reduce the production and use of plastics for human and planetary health. Compostable products reduce our reliance on traditional single-use plastics and can be composted as part of the composting process.

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April 26th
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International Compost Awareness Week starts in just a little over a week! Check out the ICAW events page to find an event in your area or to get ideas of what you can do in your community. When you have your plans, take a minute and share them on the page so people can know what is happening near you and around the country.
https://compostfoundation.org/icaw-get-involved-events

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#icaw2024, #naturesclimatechampion, #compost

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Join us in celebrating International Compost Awareness Week today through May 11th! This year's theme is “COMPOST…Nature’s Climate Champion”. Let’s all work together to share the message about the many benefits of composting our food scraps and yard waste and then using the compost we create on our gardens and farms. Together we can all do our part to be a climate champion!

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#icaw2024, #naturesclimatechampion, #compost

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Composting is a tool in addressing climate change. Compost reduces greenhouse gas emissions at landfills, promotes healthy plant growth and increases resilience to the effects of climate change such as drought, flooding and other extreme weather events.

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When food scraps, yard waste and other organic materials go to a landfill, their decomposition produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The production of methane is due to anaerobic decomposition, the absence of oxygen. A compost pile on the other hand decomposes aerobically, with oxygen, and primarily produces carbon dioxide. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions can help reduce impacts from climate change.

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Carbon sequestration is the capture, removal and storage of carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere. When compost is applied to our soils, it enhances soil health and creates an abundant community of microbes and healthy plants that sequester carbon in the soil.

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Climate champions bring communities together for a common cause. Composting is nature’s climate champion and builds community resiliency by creating local jobs, providing environmental education and building local healthy soils to support resilient ecosystems and productive food gardens.

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Compost can help turn nutrient-starved dirt into rich, healthy soil where our fruits and vegetables can grow and thrive. How does compost help? By recycling organic material into compost we create healthy soils that produce healthier food and in many cases higher yields. It also reduces the need for fertilizer and pesticides, improves water quality and conserves water, as well as stores carbon in soil - helping to reduce climate change.

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Compost feeds the soil and slowly releases nutrients over time. Compost improves soil water holding capacity, decreases the need for synthetic fertilizers by slowly releasing nutrients over time, and enhances healthy soil conditions to increase yields and regenerate soil biology to grow more nutrient-dense crops.

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CREF Trustee Chair, Ginny Black, on backyard composting

Separating Organics Waste

Kiss the Ground The Compost Story

Joe Lamp'l videos on composting

Backyard Composting - simple steps

Using Compost in Vegetable Gardens

Three Steps to Easy Home Composting