Fall Bus Tour - Composting
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, so sign up today to secure your spot!
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.
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.