New York State Compost Site Operators Workshop: East Hampton/East Hampton Compost, Long Island Organics Initiative

CET, with support from NYS DEC, is hosting a free compost site operators’ workshop in East Hampton, New York on Wednesday, April 1^st, from 10:30am-3:00pm.  

Join us for an engaging and informative half-day event focused on best practices for implementing community scale composting systems in New York State. The workshop will be led by James McSweeney of Compost Technical Services and The 131° School of Composting. 

The workshop will be divided into two parts: an online webinar and a half-day field session. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 3^rd from 10:00am-12:00pm. All in-person registrants will automatically register for the webinar. If you are unable to attend, we will record the session so that attendees can watch before the in-person field portion.  

The hands-on field session will take place at East Hampton Transfer Station, in collaboration with the Long Island Organics Initiative and East Hampton Compost.  

This workshop is geared toward the following participants from New York State: 

• Operators of agricultural, municipal, and private composting operations that accept food scraps. 

• Operators of small-scale/community composting sites that accept food scraps, such as community gardens, local parks, etc. 

• Other interested parties considering starting a commercial or community scale composting operation to compost food scraps. 

Priority registration will be given to New York-based composters. Out-of-state registrants will be placed on a waitlist and notified if spots become available. 

This workshop is part of a series of two workshops that CET is hosting in Spring 2026 under our Rethink Food Waste NY program. The other workshop will be hosted in Schenectady, NY. We kindly request that you register for only one of the two workshops. 

For more information, please reach out to CET at RethinkFoodWasteNY@cetonline.org or 866-306-0911.