As the New Year begins, many of us are inspired to adopt resolutions that improve our lives and the planet. Among the most impactful changes you can make is embracing composting; a simple yet powerful habit that transforms waste into a valuable resource. Here's how you can shift your habits to make composting an instinct!

The holiday season is a time of joy, giving, and celebration and it can also lead to increased waste and environmental impact. By adopting sustainable practices, you can make the festivities more meaningful and planet-friendly.

The holidays are a time for feasting, decorating, and celebrating. But they also bring an abundance of waste. With some mindful planning, you can keep the season festive and Missoula strong. Every effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle will have a huge positive impact on the health and resilience of our community.

Fall has officially arrived. Your and your neighbor's yards are accumulating various types of debris as plants prepare for winter dormancy. Cleaning up your lawn for fall and winter is a big task, and once you’ve got everything piled up, how do you get rid of this nutrient-rich debris? The next step is more important than you think.

As we wrap up another fabulous summer, we’re excited to share the results of our composting collection at local events. It’s been a season of learning, growth, and heaps of success—quite literally! Here’s a look at how our composting efforts have made a difference.

Last year, with the help of our community, we were able to divert 74% of the waste created by the Western Montana Fair. An astounding 64% was diverted to compost, and 10% was diverted to recycling. With record attendance surpassing 100,000 people, this was a major environmental accomplishment.

A week away from the 2024 Western Montana Fair, we need help to beat last year's record! Your participation and enthusiasm for sustainability is essential success.

The Missoula Marathon is right around the corner. It takes a community to put on such a great event; and one to keep it sustainable.

Collecting food waste for composting can be… well, pretty messy. Here are some tips to keep your bin clean.

How we meet the challenge of sustainable development now will determine our future. Strong city planning and support from everyone in our community will be essential in managing these challenges effectively.

Missoula Gives is a 26-hour online celebration of our community. It connects generous Missoulians with the causes they care about. It is a day to celebrate the role local nonprofits play in making our community great.

Denis Hayes, Earth Day founder, made it clear that Earth Day was a beginning: "If the environment is a fad, it's going to be our last fad...We are building a movement, a movement with a broad base, a movement which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a movement that values people more than technology, people more than political boundaries, people more than profit."

Recycling emphasizes the importance of minimizing waste and reusing resources, replenishing speaks to restoring what's been depleted, and regrowth is the result of these efforts. “Spring" ties it all together. It's a season to remind us why we spend all year composting, a time when we get to spread our newly transformed resources back into the soil to fuel new life.

We have created a Facebook group, “Missoula's Compost Q's & A's”. The vision of this group is to help our community navigate composting in Missoula.

Easter is a time to celebrate life. Material that fell during winter serves as food and shelter for new growth. Birds serenade new sprouts as they emerge from the thawing earth. Eggs have long been a symbol of fertility and new life. Today, perhaps we have lost the celebration of life by shrink wrapping eggs in tombs of plastic, buying cheap single use containers every year to store candy, and decorating with plastic fake grass. Nothing like celebrating Spring by drowning it in Polyethylene. There has to be a better way.

March's full moon can be called the “Worm Moon”. It will occur March 25th, 2024.

It’s time to start planting, fertilizing, and preparing lawns and gardens for a prosperous season of growth. Adding compost in spring is a wonderful way to nourish your plants and enrich the soil after a long winter.

“Seventy five percent of the world's flowering plants and 35% of food crops rely on animal pollinators to reproduce”. Unfortunately, habitat loss is a major threat to native pollinators. Learn how to keep them safe.

Composting is a great way to reciprocate love to our earth and soils.

Our growth means Missoula will develop effective waste management solutions that are reliable and affordable. We focus on Missoula’s future by supporting residents and local businesses with curbside composting services.

Let's Connect Compost this year. Chat about benefits and barriers to composting among friends and family. Help Missoula develop composting solutions that work for you at home and around our community.