Composting Resources

NC Organics Recycling Studies

• Case Study on Compost Haulers 2024 (Updated July 2024, NCDEQ, Waste Reduction Partners)
• NC Organics Recycling Study 2020: Materials Managed 2011-2020 and Food Recovered 2019 (January 2021, NCDEQ)
• NC Organics Recycling Study 2016: Materials Managed 2011-2015 and Food Recovered 2015 (June 2016, NCDEQ)

Additional NCDEQ Publications

• Composting Facility Stormwater BMPs Informational Manual - DRAFT (September 2015, NC DEQ)
• North Carolina 2012 Food Waste Generation Study (August 2012, NCDEQ)
• Composting Laboratories (Updated Jan 2025)

• Food Recovery in North Carolina (October 2015, Biocycle, Mouw & Montezuma)
• Composting Supports Jobs and Healthy Watersheds (2013, Brenda Platt)
• Waste Not in Asheville (April 2013, BioCycle, 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 - NCDEQ)
• Save The Food Webinar Recording (Nov 3, 2016) (food waste prevention at the consumer level -- NRDC, AdCouncil, NCDEQ)
• Expanding Organics Recycling through Non-Regulatory Efforts (USCC 2016, Jorge Montezuma - NCDEQ)
• Expanding Food Scraps Recycling through State Assistance (Food Recovery Summit 2015, Jorge Montezuma - NCDEQ)
• Compost Facility Management Basics (2005, Frank Franciosi)
• Building a Food Waste Diversion Program (2000, Brooks Contractor)
• Compost Tea (Brian Rosa - NCDEQ)
• Composting Industrial and Commercial Organics (2000, Craig Coker - NCDEQ)
• How Compost Can Affect Soil Quality (William Brinton - Woods End Research Lab)
• Viewing Organics Recycling as an Economic Development Tool (2000, Craig Coker - NCDEQ)
• Fostering Food Recycling (1999, Craig Coker - NCDEQ)

• 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 Sustainable Management of Food
  • U.S. Composting Council
• ​Technical Resources
  • Cornell University Compost Calculator