Come, Post Your Compost TN Environmental Council

Come, Post Your Compost!

~ Aiming to educate & encourage TN residents to compost in their backyards ~
You can participate in our campaign to divert 60 tons of food waste from TN landfills by December 2019!

Click on your county below to get started:

Through our Come, Post your Compost program, the Tennessee Environmental Council will serve as a central resource for food waste reduction across Tennessee by helping residents keep tons of food and yard waste out of our landfills and put it back into our community’s hands and gardens. Here we provide county-specific food recovery resources (local food banks and gleaning services) as well as information on how to backyard-compost. We hope to engage at least 1,000 Tennessee residents, throughout all 95 counties, in diverting 60 tons of food and yard waste from Tennessee’s landfills by December 2019. We’ll help you get started by offering compost supplies upon registration, and we will reward participants at random and hold inter-county compost competitions. Help us create a community of dedicated composters!

Why does composting matter?
Getting food to our tables...

Eats up 10% of total U.S. energy budget
Uses 50% of U.S. land
Swallows 80% of freshwater consumed in the U.S.

YET,

Up to 40% of food in the U.S. today goes uneaten
Averaging about 20 lbs wasted per person every month
Hitting an estimated $165 billion a year thrown out

If that's not enough...

1 in 8 Americans face food insecurity
Food represents the single largest occupant in U.S. landfills
Only 3% of it is composted

(according to a NRDC food waste report)

Let's cut the scrap and get involved!

Lbs of compost in Tennessee

This project was funded under an organics management grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

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