Every year in Illinois, businesses pay millions of dollars to haul food scraps to a landfill. That material could just as easily go to a compost facility...except it’s currently way more expensive, and compost facilities are few and far between.

The Illinois Food Scrap Coalition wants to change that. And they need your help! If your business or organization...

• Creates food scraps (restaurants, hotels, hospitals and other large businesses)

• Hauls food scraps (any waste haulers, large or small)• Composts food scraps (commercial compost facilities) • Uses finished compost (municipalities, government

agencies, landscape companies and more)• Wants to learn about possible grant funds to implement

food scrap diversion

...please consider attending this upcoming Stakeholder Forum to share your ideas, experiences and challenges. We need your boots-on-the-ground, every day experiences and input to help us develop solutions that will work. This is one of five Food Scrap Composting Challenges and Solutions in Illinois Stakeholder Forums that will help to advance commercial food scrap composting across the state.

This work is generously sponsored by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)

About the IFSC: The Illinois Food Scrap Coalition (IFSC) is a group of more than 100 solid waste agencies, county governments, nonprofit organizations and state and federal agencies organized to promote food scrap composting in Illinois. Founding members include representatives from: Seven Generations Ahead, School and Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education (SCARCE), Solid Waste Association of Northern America (SWANA), Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC), Solid Waste Agency of Lake County (SWALCO), Illinois Counties Solid Waste Management Association (ILCSWMA), Kendall County, DuPage County, Kane County, Cook County, Will County, Loyola University, McHenry County College, Village of Oak Park, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO). Learn more at illinoiscomposts.org

YOU’RE INVITED: Food Scrap Composting Challenges and Solutions in Illinois Stakeholder Forum

Be Part of the Solution! Register for the Food Scrap Composting Challenges and Solutions in Illinois Stakeholder Forum. For details, visit illinoiscomposts.org/forums.

Event Details• September 16, 2014• Forum: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Register/Network: 8:00 am• Cantigny Park,

Wheaton, IL 60189• scarceecoed.org

Email Jennifer Nelson at jennifer@sevengenerations ahead.org with questions

Upcoming Forums• TBA: Urbana• TBA: Belleville• 10/22: Bloomington

IllinoisComposts.org

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