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This Discovery Workshop features the voices of city, state, and federal agency leaders across the country working on programs, policies, and resources in support of composting infrastructure, education, collection, processing, and market development.

Discovery Workshop #12 History and Evolution of Food-contact Packaging

In this Discovery Workshop, innovation pioneers, technology specialists, and infrastructure and innovation funding researchers come together to talk about what is needed to create system improvements in the US composting system.

The 10th Discovery Workshop gives the professional associations in the compost and compostables industries the chance to speak about what their members and stakeholders are experiencing, what they see are opportunities to improve the circularity of compostables and compost, and what challenges they are facing. Speakers include the U.S. Composting Council, the Foodservice Packaging Institute, WA...

This session's panelists include BPI, CMA, ASTM lab staff and university researchers. Learn how the certification and testing processes for compostables in the U.S. works, and about some the testing and research underway at the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State University.

End markets for compost - large and small, are the key to circularity for compost. Whether the application is for home gardens, landscaping, agriculture, green infrastructure, or large corporate and educational campuses and municipalities, each end market has a variety of needs that must be met. Panelists discuss the opportunities, realities, and challenges currently faced when trying to create...

Compostable packaging designers, converters, and manufacturers offer consumers alternatives to single-use plastic packaging. This session explores some of the intentions of the compostables industry, the opportunities compostables represent, and the challenges they face. Next up! Discovery Workshop #8 focused on Creating Quality Compost and Large-Scale Application | 7/11, 12-1:30 pm EST To RSVP...

Material Suppliers and Material Designers play a critical role as they select the material that is used in the development of compostable packaging so it can be accepted by composters appropriately. Getting that acceptance and working together will be critical so the right materials end up in the compost. By partnering with Compost Manufacturers and other critical stakeholders, this can lead to...

Composting Infrastructure is the critical intersection between solid waste management planning, residential and commercial collection of organics and compostables, commercial composting sites, and waste reduction opportunities. Panelists share perspectives on funding, permitting, building, maintaining, and/or regulating composting infrastructure. To RSVP for the Discovery Workshop series: docs....

Learn more about the inspiration for this 2-year initiative, the intentions of the project, and how to get involved.

This workshop is focused on the perspective of Foodservice Product Suppliers, Distributors and Broadliners. This lens is critical to the process because not only is this group a key connector to generators of organic food waste, but they have a strong understanding of the education attached to selling compostable products. This helps ensure that customers have knowledgeable resources to be educ...

Large generators of food scraps and compostables (corporate campuses, school campuses, large event venues, restaurant chains, airports, etc.) are where the rubber meets the road between organizational and municipal sustainability goals and compost manufacturers. Hear from panelists about what they see are the biggest opportunities and challenges from offering "compost" sorting stations at their...

Collection of food and compostables from end users (residential and commercial customers) would not be possible without the essential infrastructure provided by organizations and companies that provide hauling services. Hauling is where the rubber meets the road between the supply chain, municipalities, customer education, and regional solid waste systems.

The Future Search Steering Committee is convening key stakeholder groups from across the system impacting compostable packaging in a series of online Discovery Workshops. These workshops will lead up to the Future Search whole systems strategic planning event on September 23-26th in Denver, CO, Improving the Circularity of Compostables and Compost. The intention of these 90-minute Discovery Wor...