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Backyard Food Scraps Composting Webinar 

Backyard Food Scraps Composting Webinar (Online – April 30, 6:30 -7:30 pm), join DEP's Recycling and Resource Management Division - Waste Reduction and Recycling Section staff for a virtual workshop to learn how to compost various types of food scraps in your backyard. Free – for more information, click here.   https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/16d2a756-4550-4fb9-83b1-0b8bb6f...
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Working Toward a World Without Food Waste

The Climate Mobilization Webinar: Working Toward a World Without Food Waste  Thursday, July 20, 7:30 - 8:30 pm Please join The Climate Mobilization on July 20 at 7:30–8:30 pm to learn what Maryland, Montgomery County, and you can do now to help reduce and recycle food waste to address climate change. This information will be useful to homeowners, condo owners, and renters. There wi...
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Montgomery County Greenfest in the Gardens

The Montgomery County GreenFest is the largest annual environmental festival in Montgomery County, MD. GreenFest is expanding this year by taking place at two different locations over one weekend. GreenFest in the Gardens, Brookside Gardens – April 22, 2023, 11am – 4pm. This event will focus on protecting and preserving the natural environment. Topics covered will include land use, food consu...
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Waste Not Want Not: How Composting & Zero-Waste Cooking Can Green Your Life

Chef Todd Gray and Dame Ellen Kassoff, our hosts with the compost, will share their sustainability journey and pass along valuable tips on how you can start composting and save money by rescuing valuable ingredients you’re probably tossing. Wasting food wastes all kinds of resources and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. By embracing seed-to-stem cooking and diverting food waste into compost...
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WSIZ Community Event: Tackling Food Waste

The Wheaton Sustainable Innovation Zone (WSIZ) invites you to take part in an upcoming event to learn about tackling food waste in your business.  Wednesday, February 15  |  4pm – 6pm Agenda: 4pm – 5pm: Tabling | Networking 5pm – 6pm: Presentation | Q&A LOCATION  WorkSource Montgomery, 11510 Georgia Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902 REGISTER HERE The restaurant industry spends an e...
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Food Recovery Week: Launching Food Waste Action Movement In Public Schools

THURSDAY, OCT 20 — 7:00 – 8:00PM (Virtual) Launching Food Waste Action Movement In Public Schools Students take you on their journey to create a waste-conscious public school system and advocate for new food waste legislation. Three years ago, students in Montgomery County Public Schools started the first efforts to compost food waste in Maryland. We will share our progress and offer how steward...
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Food Recovery Week: Taller del compostaje casero (Learn How to Home Compost) in Spanish

THURSDAY, OCT 20 — NOON – 1:00PM (Virtual)  Taller del compostaje casero (Learn How to Home Compost) in Spanish  ¡Aprende a hacer compostaje en casa! Todos están invitados a un taller virtual GRATIS, que se dará en español, en linea la comodidad de su hogar. Aprenda cómo hacer compostaje en su propio patio trasero y así poner su granito de tierra fértil para salvar el mundo. (English: Learn how ...
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Food Recovery Week: Intro to Composting at Home: Hot & Worm Composting 

TUESDAY, OCT 18 — NOON – 1:00PM (Virtual) Intro to Composting at Home: Hot & Worm Composting  Learn how to home compost and make your own “black gold” for your yard or garden! This workshop will cover the basics of hot composting outside as well as worm composting (suitable for small patios and apartments). Composting cuts pollution from trash, landfills, and incinerators while storing carbo...
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