All about Composting Workshop!

“All about Composting Workshop” is presented by Transition Town Port Washington and The Town of North Hempstead Climate Action Initiative

Date/Time: Saturday, June 4 @ 2:00 pm

Where: Science Museum of Long Island, 1526 N. Plandome Road. Please park in the visitors parking lot and meet the group on the other side of the carriage house near the TTPW Community Compost.

Let us know you are Coming by Registering: HERE

Make Composting your "greens" and "browns" part of your family's weekly routine. This Year. For Mother Earth. For Humankind.

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO COMPOST YOUR KITCHEN WASTE

If everyone composted their food kitchen scraps instead of throwing them in the trash, we would be diverting up to a whopping 20% of our garbage from the landfills. Food waste in landfills turns into methane, a greenhouse gas that traps 86 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

When kitchen scraps are converted to compost and then returned to the earth, biological, chemical and physical characteristics of the soil improve immensely. Not only is compost very nutritious for plants, but it also serves as a filter and sponge, immobilizing and degrading pollutants improving water quality. It is estimated that compost filters out urban storm water pollutants by 60 – 95%. 

Join Meagan Fastuca, Environmental Control Specialist for the Town of North Hempstead, Mindy Germain, Founder and President of EcoLeap, Claire Brezel and Paul Merkelson from Transition Town Port Washington, to learn about:

• Strategies to reduce food waste and why it is important

• The basic principles and practices of composting

• Different methods of home composting including types of systems and equipment

• Why reducing food waste is part of The Town of North Hempstead’s climate action planning

Dress for the weather, wear closed toe shoes and bring garden gloves. If you have questions, please contact us at info@transitiontownpw.org

Be an Earthmaker. All ages are Welcome!