2024 Fall Bus Tour to Visit Composting Sites in NH
This fall, NRRA will be wrapping up the year-long Next Level Recycling project focused on composting and food waste diversion with a bus tour of composting sites in New Hampshire.
Food waste accounts for 24% of municipal solid waste, and while food scrap composting has become easier in NH with changes to municipal and commercial composting regulations, many communities are still in the beginning stages of contemplating how to divert their food scraps.
This bus tour will start with a visit to the composting operation at WorkSong Fam in Hopkinton, NH, where residents can bring their food scraps free of charge to be composted and used on site. The tour will then continue to New London, where they ran a successful pilot program and now collect food waste at their municipal transfer station and then send it through Renewal Compost - a commercial composter. Finally, the tour will then end in Lebanon, where they accept food scraps at their large facility, process onsite, and then the compost created is used by the town and on the limited service landfill.
This tour is being funded through a grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service and will be FREE to attendees (usual cost is $65 per person, but not this year!)
Due to grant stipulations, the first 25 spots (of 50) on the bus are currently limited to the following communities, but all are welcome to register - we will take as many people as we can!
Acworth, Alexandria, Alstead, Ashland, Bartlett, Bennington, Bethlehem, Bristol, Carroll, Charlestown, Clarksville, Colebrook, Columbia, Dalton, Danbury, Dummer, Easton, Effingham, Ellsworth, Enfield, Errol, Franconia, Freedom, Gorham, Goshen, Grafton, Greenville, Groton, Hancock, Hillsborough, Jefferson, Keene, Lancaster, Landaff, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, Lyman, Marlow, Meredith, Middleton, Milan, Monroe, New London, Newbury, Nothumberland, Ossipee, Pittsburg, Pittsfield, Rumney, Sandwich, Stark, Stewartstown, Stratford, Swanzey, Temple, Troy, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, Walpole, Warner, Warren, Washington, Wentworth, Whitefield, Wilton, Winchester
Operators may earn 4.25 hours of continuing education on the tour.
Details: The tour will take place on Wednesday, September 25th. It will leave the NRRA office in Epsom at 8am and return by 4pm. The tour bus is a luxury charter bus with a bathroom. Lunch will be included in the tour.
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