• Back-yard Composting and Other Down-to-Earth Solutions
• SWRC selling compost bins for the City of Saskatoon
• City of Saskatoon offers rebate on compost bins
• City of Saskatoon Grass and Leaf Depots
• Simple three-compartment compost bin — instructions
• Water is an essential composting ingredient
• Options for handling leaves
• Pests — avoiding problems in your compost
• Frequently Asked Questions about home composting
• StatsCan update on composting - May 2008
• Using a home composting toilet
• Testing a barrel composter

Check your library for SWRC's DVD, Home Composting on the Prairies, or contact our office at (306) 931-3242, or email info@saskwastereduction.ca.

• Vermicomposting fact sheet (how-to)
• Read a profile of a vermicomposter. .

Bees have their swarm now worms have their squirm. 'Squirm of Worms' joins Gaggle of Geese, Pod of Whales, and Pride of Lions as a collective noun. Avid worm composters have been struggling with a way to refer to the increasing herds that transform kitchen food scraps into compost. This uncertainty has lead finally to the obvious selection of 'Squirm'. The wiggly decision was made official during the May, International Composting Symposium.

In related news, Mary Applehof, long time guru of composting with worms, has launched a new, free e-newsletter on her website. You can subscribe here.

(Source: WasteWatch, June 2002)

 

 

• Allen Lynch's humourous take on lawn maintenance.
• Clip 'n Save - options for grass clippings
• Grasscycling - A common-sense solution
• Grasscycling tips

Municipal and community composting

• Options for municipalities
• Swift Current's municipal composting initiative
• Master Composters: Find out what our Master Composter training is all about and read about what three Master Composters have done in their communities.
  • Reuben Jahn
  • Murray Schollar
  • Dennis Woods
• Organics collection in Ontario
• Prince Albert opens biosolids composting facility
• The state of Composting in Saskatchewan in 2008
• Sustainable Composting Project - Yorkton's Story
• Sustainable Composting Project - Wynyard's Story
• Sustainable Composting Project - Meadow Lake's Story
• Sustainable Composting Project - Wheatland Regional Centre, Rosetown
  

Institutions and businesses tackling their composting waste

• Learn what the Forestry Farm and the Regional Psychiatric Centre are doing with their organic waste.
• Composting at the University of Saskatchewan
• IKEA takes on Vermicomposting
• TerraCycle - taking vermicomposting to Walmart
• Composting Animal Mortalities
• Sustainable Composting Project - Bruno Feeds
• Sustainable Composting Project - Sherbrooke Community Centre

• Who's at work in the compost pile?
• Herbicides in compost
• Composting Hazardous Materials
• New CCME Guidelines for Compost Quality Announced October 2005
• Composting as a solution for CRD waste? Could plywood be chipped and composted?
• A brief history of composting
• Composting - Is it done?
• Mother Nature invented Zero Waste
• Update on Biodegradable Plastics
• The paper-compost connection
  
  
• Want to dig deeper? Try our composting links.