Composting Resources

How to Compost

• Maine DEP Composting Resources 
• Composting 101
• Kitchen Composting 101
• How to Make a Composter
• Beginner’s Guide to Home Composting
• What can be composted (40+ items to compost or avoid)
• Composting Tips and Tricks
  • Tip #50. Relax! Even if you do everything wrong, you will eventually make great compost.
• Composting with Kitchen Scraps: From Fridge to Stove to Garden

Vermicomposting- Using earthworms to convert organic waste to fertilizer!

• Vermicomposting 101
• Worm Mainea Website

Find a list of Composting Books for Adults here!!!

Town Sorting Programs

• Showhegan Receives Award for Composting Program of the Year
• Wiscasset Sustainable Waste
• In a first for Maine, Scarborough and South Portland will start collecting food waste

Resources for Schools

• School Waste Audit 
  • Why Your School Should Do a Food Waste Audit
  • School Waste Assessment Guide 
  • Blue Tarp Waste Assessment
• How To Compost
  • Zero Waste Video
  • K-5th Grade Cafeteria Sorting Prezi
  • 6th-8th Grade Cafeteria Sorting Prezi
  • 9th-12th Grade Cafeteria Sorting Prezi
  • “Compost It – Don’t Trash It”

• How to Start a Sharing Table
  • “Share It – Don’t Trash It”

• Educational Resources
  • Maine School Garden Network
  • Farm to School
  • Ag in the Classroom
  • Children’s Composting Books
  • A guide to composting in the classroom
• Classroom Activities and Labs
  • Do The Rot Thing
  • The Green Team Composting Lesson
  • Challenge your eco-footprint

For further information or questions please contact mainecompostsweek@gmail.com