Organics Upcycling: From Waste to Resource

Join us to explore practical strategies to tackle food waste and organic materials in the North Country, including source reduction, prevention, composting, recycling, and donation techniques. Learn how these methods benefit businesses and communities and keep nutrients and economic opportunities in the North Country.

Join us for a straightforward discussion on building a sustainable future together with networking and socializing to follow.

With questions, please reach out to rethinkfoodwasteny@cetonline.org.

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The Center for EcoTechnology innovates, implements, and scales the environmental solutions that communities need to thrive. Through Rethink Food Waste NY we provide free assistance to businesses across the state to support the development of a vibrant marketplace to divert wasted food from New York's commercial and institutional sectors. Working with New York businesses, municipalities, organic recyclers, food relief organizations, and others we identify prevention, recovery, and diversion solutions, seamlessly integrating them into existing operations.

Compost for Good: Compost for Good's vision is a world in which humans positively impact the earth and its communities by valuing organic waste as a resource. Our mission is to support communities to adopt economically viable and ecologically resilient composting systems and processes through education, outreach, technical support, peer to peer connections, and research. Co-founders John, Jen, and Katie are passionate about organics recycling on the community scale. Compost for Good is a project of AdkAction, a partner of ANCA (Adirondack North Country Association), a collaborator with many. While our focus is in NYS, we work with others throughout the US and other countries.

CCHD: The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) is a full-service, PHAB accredited rural county health department organized into 5 distinct divisions: Administration, Finance & Information Technology, Health Care Services, Environmental Health & Safety, and Health Planning and Promotion. CCHD’s division of Health Planning and Promotion (HPP) specializes in community health education, engagement, program planning/evaluation and is dedicated to changing the context in which health-related decisions are made. Through HPP’s Eat Smart, Waste Less program, we provide technical assistance to organizations who are interested in reducing the amount of food that they waste, donating excess edible food and recycling wasted food.