Susanne Lee, faculty fellow at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, spoke to Popular Science about compost management. Lee says that creating compost as a community can displace the need to purchase manure and fertilizer — or even be sold at a profit. “If you have an end product that has a market value, of course that is going to be saving you money versus trying to take up space in the landfill,” said Lee. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance shared the Popular Science report.
