Composting is a great environmental practice that puts action on climate change as close your back yard. Benefits include:

• keeping organic waste from being landfilled, which avoids greenhouse gases produced in transporting waste to landfill,
• preventing the production of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) from landfilled organics, and
• production of a great soil amendment (compost) that plants and gardeners love!

At a larger scale, composting can also take care of organic waste generated in municipalities, institutions, farms and commercial businesses.

International Compost Awareness Week is celebrated annually in May.  It was started over two decades ago and has since spread to Australia, England, and the United States.  Each year, Resource Conservation Manitoba joins the Composting Council of Canada in promoting composting.

This year, Compost Awareness Week runs from May 3 - 9, 2009.  RCM is holding basic workshops suitable for beginners. These workshops will cover the 5 essential keys to composting, layering, different composting methods and bin types.

Workshops and registration are FREE.

Click to download ideas for Celebrating Compost Awareness Week (PDF).