Organics Recycling

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• Brush and Stump Management

  Information about how to properly manage brush and stumps in Connecticut.

• Food Residual Composting Facilities

  The following tables identify the permitted composting and anaerobic digestion facilities allowed to accept food waste and the facilities undergoing permit review by the DEEP.

• Home Composting - Turn Your Spoils into Soil

  Information for homeowners on how to compost their food scraps.

• Do Not Trash Grass

  Learn how to properly manage grass clippings from lawn mowing.

• School Composting Bins, School Composting Manual and Website

  Information about a grant project for composting at a school in Mansfield, CT.

• Food Share Composting Pilot Project

  Information about a composting program for spolied food from a local food bank in Connecticut.

• Large Scale Organics Management

  Composting on a larger scale than in our backyards provides our state with economic and environmental benefits.

• Commercial / Institutional Food Waste Collection and Composting

  Information about a food waste collection and composting pilot project in Groton and Stonington, CT.

• Commercial Organics Recycling Law

  Connecticut's organics recycling law for generators of residual food waste.

• Composting and Organics Resources

• Organics Mapping Project

  Mapping project for the sources of food waste in Connecticut.

• Potential Sources of Compost

  Where to find compost in Connecticut.

• Sheet Leaf Composting

  Information about sheet leaf composting - a different kind of leaf recycling.

• Using Compost to Control Erosion

  How to use compost to control erosion in Connecticut.

• Vermicomposting Pilot Project

  Information about a pilot project in Connecticut using earthworms to compost food waste.