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Are you with a local government or agency interested in reducing and recycling wasted food and curious to learn how you can help spur local composting? Are you a community-oriented composter or micro hauler searching for public-private partnerships? The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is hosting a webinar on December 9 — Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Public-Private Partnerships — that will share lessons learned and tips for replication from three local government and community composter partnerships in Providence, Rhode Island, New York City, and Philadelphia. These partnerships serve as successful models for local governments and communities across the country, highlighting how composting goals can be achieved while also generating numerous other environmental, social, and local economic benefits. Speakers from Groundwork RI, Compost Power, Bennett Compost, the New York City Housing Authority and the Philadelphia Department of Prisons will present. These partnerships are part of the 17 local government programs featured in ILSR’s upcoming 2026 report, Keep Compost Local.