Composting Resources

NC Organics Recycling Studies

• NC Organics Recycling Study 2020: Materials Managed 2011-2020 and Food Recovered 2019 (NCDEQ January 2021)
• NC Organics Recycling Study 2016: Materials Managed 2011-2015 and Food Recovered 2015 (NCDEQ June 2016)

Additional NCDEQ Publications

• Composting Facility Stormwater BMPs Informational Manual - DRAFT (NC DENR, September 2015)
• North Carolina 2012 Food Waste Generation Study (NCDENR August 2012)

• Composting Laboratories (Updated May 2017)
• Food Recovery in North Carolina (Biocycle October 2015, Mouw & Montezuma)
• Composting Supports Jobs and Healthy Watersheds (ILSR, Brenda Platt)
• Waste Not in Asheville (BioCycle April 2013 Sean Clark)
• Trailblazing with Food Waste Diversion - Brooks Contractor (Winter 2000, Craig S. Coker)
• Composting Food Discards at the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill)
• Developing Trash-Free Special Events: A Planning Guide for North Carolina Communities and Event Planners (June 2000, The Eno River Association)
• Fate of Formaldehyde in MDF Sawdust during MSW Composting, Suchat Leungprasert and Lambert Otten.

• Wake County Food Recovery Summit Presentation (Feb 6, 2017 Jorge Montezuma NC DEQ)
• Save The Food Webinar Recording (Nov 3, 2016) (food waste prevention at the consumer level -- NRDC, AdCouncil, NC DEQ)
• Expanding Organics Recycling through Non-Regulatory Efforts (USCC 2016 Jorge Montezuma NC DEQ)
• Expanding Food Scraps Recycling through State Assistance (Food Recovery Summit 2015 Jorge Montezuma NC DEQ)
• Compost Facility Management Basics (Frank Franciosi 2005)
• Building a Food Waste Diversion Program (Brooks Contractor)
• Compost Tea (Brian Rosa NC DENR)
• Composting Industrial and Commercial Organics (Craig Coker 2000 NC DENR)
• How Compost Can Affect Soil Quality (William Brinton, Woods End Research Lab)
• Viewing Organics Recycling as an Economic Development Tool (Craig Coker 2000 NC DENR)
• Fostering Food Recycling (Craig Coker 1999 NC DENR)

• North Carolina Municipalities
  • ​City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services - Backyard Composting
  • Orange County Commercial Recycling (Food Scraps Collection)
  • Wake County Food Scraps Drop Off Program at Convenience Centers
• North Carolina
  • North Carolina Composting Council
  • N.C. Cooperative Extension Service: Composting
  • N.C. Division of Waste Management - Solid Waste Section: Composting 
  • N.C. Division of Water Quality
  • N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center
  • Soil/Compost Lab: N.C. Department of Agriculture and Customer Service
  • Local Food Infrastructure Inventory Map (CEFS)
• Other States
  • California Integrated Waste Management Board - Organics
  • Florida's Online Composting Center
  • Georgia Environmental Protection Division Food Waste Diversion
  • South Carolina's Food Waste Generator's Map
• National
  • ​Biocycle- Journal of Composting and Organics Recycling
  • EPA Composting
  • EPA Food Waste Program
  • U.S. Composting Council
• ​Technical Resources
  • ​Conversion Factors: Organics - California Integrated Waste Management Board
  • Cornell University Compost Calculator