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Leave the Leaves, Baltimore City!

November 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

Leave the leaves is a movement that supports letting the fallen leaves stay on the ground in your yard to create an eco-friendly mulch for a healthier environment. Leaves provide many benefits including those for the environment, your health, and your home.

Red and yellow maple leaves covering the entire surface

Making Frederick's compost pilot program permanent!

September 18, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

For the past two years, the City of Frederick has offered free food scrap pickup to City households through Key City Compost, to be composted at Key City's compost facility near Thurmont. Now, the pilot program is coming to an end, and the City of Frederick faces the decision of whether to make it permanent, what the permanent parameters should be, and how it should be paid for.

Why is Baltimore City burning our yard waste?

June 25, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze

For decades, Baltimore City code has banned the disposal of yard waste and recyclable materials at the City's landfill. CB23-0466 will extend that to all landfills and incinerators, requiring private waste haulers and the City government to divert yard waste for composting instead of incineration. Read our testimony signed by 23 organizations and technical comments for a more in-depth analysis of the bill:

A picture of the BRESCO trash incinerator in Baltimore

Image of food waste with text that says Take Action: Keep food waste out of the trash

Less trash - more compost!

Write a letter to the Commissioner of MassDEP, Bonnie Heiple, urging her to support municipal composting programs and keep more organic and food waste out of landfills and incinerators!

Will Pollution be Part of Maryland's Climate Pathway? Speak out now!

August 15, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze

Maryland has published a draft climate plan - and the solid waste section needs a lot of changes. Here's how you can speak out!

Will Pollution Be A Part Of Maryland's Climate Pathway?

On-Farm Composting Webinar

July 12, 2023 | By Emily Ranson

Farmers can play an integral role in a healthy, local environment, and this year Maryland passed legislation enabling farmers to accept more food scraps into their existing foot print for manure composting. Keith Ohlinger, a Central Maryland farmer, joined us to speak about how farmers can use food scraps to create compost, and what this means for the environment.