ICAW 2025 Events
Arkansas
Compost Awareness Week with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
ICAW Event Description: Join us for a series of events whether online on the University of Arkansas campus or at the Experiment Station. We will be hosting a weeklong series of events and activities to educate about compost: what is it? how is it made? how is it used? what can be composted? And more!
City: Fayetteville
Event Date: May 5 to May 9, 2025
California
International Compost Awareness Week Workshops
Description: International Compost Awareness Week Workshops Schedule
5pm – 7pm
FREE & ALL AGES
Pick up your compost traveling passport at one of the workshops below. Earn raffle tickets for each stamp you earn (1 stamp per workshop)! On May 9, at Madison Park Community Garden there will be a final opportunity drawing for those who participated throughout the week.
5/5 – El Salvador Park Garden Backyard Composting, and Myths Debunked
5/6 – Jerome Park Garden Compost Critters
5/7 – Roosevelt Walker Garden Apartment Composting is Easy – Let’s Make Wealth from Waste!
5/8 – Pacific Electric Park Garden Layering Your Compost ~ Lasagna Style
5/9 – Madison Park Garden Small Space, Big Impact: Apartment Composting Workshop
For more information: wellness@santa-ana.org or call (714) 571 - 4253
City: Santa Ana
Event Date: May 5 - May 9, 2025
Each One Teach One: Organic Waste to Resource Instructor Workshops
Description: This series of in person workshops is designed to equip instructors with the tools for students to take climate action in their schools through organic waste recovery and compost use. Associated curriculum will be discussed and provided. Plus, opportunities to win classroom prizes!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/each-one-teach-one-organic-waste-to-resource-instructor-workshops-tickets-1323830545799?aff=oddtdtcreator
City: San Diego
Event Date: May 10, 17, 24
Soil Social: Compost Networking and Celebration
Description: Sunday, May 4, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Some soil nerds want to hang out with some other soil nerds… so join us for our first ever “Soil Social” gathering!
It just so happens to be Star Wars Day too, so the theme is “Compost as Futurism”. Interpretation is up to you!
What to bring:
🥖 Something to share with the community (food, drinks, games, music, art, whatever!)
🍽️ Reusables for eating/drinking (plate, napkin, utensils, cups, etc)
👯♂️ Human friends (no pets this round)
🚍 Street parking only so carpool encouraged
https://partiful.com/e/C892ySKupBwjVDl5OBUf
City: Compton
Event Date: May 4
CIEDM Cleanup & Meetup @ Arcadia Ecohome
ICAW Event Description: As in past years, CIEDM as a grassroots hold a local event at Arcadia Ecohome to support and take part in the global awareness campaign of ICAW 2025 by taking following actions: 1. Friday May 9 - A cleanup of the Ecohome yards and public streets by the Ecohome focuses on raking & collecting fallen leaves from street trees, parkway plants and front/side-yard plants, as backyard composting materials; 2. Saturday May 10 - An afternoon meetup with a small group of invited guests including a journalist of SingDao Daily to introduce the ICAW campaign messages & composting benefits and showcase such cool composting practices of yard & kitchen wastes as sheet, pile & in-ground composting through a guided walking tour of around the Ecohome including public parkways & streets and backyard composting sites; and 3. May 4-11 - Share online our nature-based solutions at source for zero green waste and spread our ICAW 2025 event with actions via social media to raise public awareness and actions.
City: Arcadia
Event Date: May 9-10, 2025
Compost, Vermicompost, and Make Your Own Worm Bin Workshop
ICAW Event Description: The Riverside County Department of Waste Resources will host a free Backyard Composting class and Make Your Own Worm Bin workshop on Saturday, May 3, in Moreno Valley.
Learn how to recycle organic resources, such as yard trimmings, as well as fruit and vegetable waste into a dark, crumbly, sweet-smelling soil conditioner. The hands-on class will teach residents how compost can be used to enrich the soil in gardens, lawns and house plants. Instead of putting organic waste into the garbage to be hauled to the landfill, learn to compost.
The free Backyard Composting class and demonstration begins at 9 a.m. at Riverside County Department of Waste Resources at 14310 Frederick Street. Composting is nature’s way of recycling. It’s a great way to turn waste into a resource for the garden. In composting, organic material is mixed together in a pile or bin, where literally millions of tiny microbes digest the material and turn it into a nutrient-rich soil amendment.
Low-cost compost bins will be available for purchase by Riverside County residents (limit three per household). County residents can purchase compost bins by cash or Visa, MasterCard, or Discover (credit card service fee will apply).
Residents will then learn how to further breakdown food waste with help from worms, through a process known as vermicomposting. The Vermicomposting and Make Your Own Worm Bin workshop will begin at 10:00 a.m., immediately following the composting class.
Put worms to work with vermicomposting to break down organic waste into material containing nutrients for plant growth. Volunteer master composters will teach county residents how to set up, build, harvest castings, and care for worms.
Adult county residents interested in the workshop can purchase a worm bin kit for $35 or bring their own supplies. To see to a short list of class materials needed for the class, visit http://www.rcwaste.org/vermicomposting. Tools to assemble the worm bin will be available for use at the workshop, along with worms to get your bin started. This workshop provides a hands-on opportunity to explore vermicomposting and take home an inexpensive working worm bin.
The class and workshop are free and will end by 1:00 p.m. Residents can pre-purchase compost bins and worm bin kits using Visa, MasterCard, or Discover by calling department accounting section (951) 486-3200. The classes and workshop will be held outdoors, please dress to accommodate weather and outdoor temperatures.
The Waste Resources Department offers a variety of FREE environmental education classes related to waste reduction and sustainability. Class instructors provide attendees with professional learning and instructional materials that demonstrate environmental diversion themes such as composting, recycling, and green cleaning. These programs are offered to increase awareness of waste reduction and advantages of recycling to help preserve valuable space in county landfills.
For more information, contact call (951) 486-3200, visit www.rcwaste.org/composting/how or email Waste-CompostingRecycling@rivco.org
City: Moreno Valley
Event Date: May 3, 2025 9:00 am
Illinois
Knox College Celebrates International Compost Awareness Week!
ICAW Event Description: We invite any member of the Knox community to join us in volunteering at the Knox Farm to celebrate International Compost Awareness Week! Our Compost Crew will teach volunteers how we make compost at the Farm, how to screen compost, and train anyone who wants to be a part of our Community Scale Compost Program! Hope to see you there!
When: May 5th, 4-5pm
Where: The Knox Farm, 422 Academy St, Galesburg, IL 61401
Contact:
kahope@knox.edu | elpatton@knox.edu | compost@knox.edu
City: Galesburg
Event Date: 05/05/25
The Urban Canopy Facility Operations Tour & Finished Compost Giveaway
ICAW Event Description: Join the Urban Canopy's founder, Alex Poltorak, on an engaging tour of the Urban Canopy warehouse in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, where you will see the local food cycle in action.
Alex will provide a guided tour of Canopy's compost hauling operation and CSA (community supported agriculture) program. At the conclusion of the tour, each attendee will receive 1 free five gallon of finished compost to take home!
The tour begins at 3pm
Spots are limited, first come first serve. To RSVP: Email us a compost@theurbancanopy.org
City: Chicago
Event Date: 05/06/25
Maryland
Food Scrap Fest
ICAW Event Description: Compost Crew and One Acre Farm are hosting our annual "Food Scrap Fest" for subscribers, CSA members, and the general public. This event is an opportunity to learn more about on-farm composting, the benefits of composting and best practices, and getting involved in One Acre Farm's CSA program! The event will be held on May 4th, 2025 at One Acre Farm (18608 Wasche Rd, Dickerson, MD) from 12 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Event details include:
- Compost Outpost® tour
- One Acre Farm Tour
- Planting booth
- Scavenger hunt
- Live music
- Farm Feast compost for sale
- And more!
Get your ticket(s) at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-food-scrap-fest-tickets-1321571077669?aff=oddtdtcreator
City: Dickerson
Event Date: May 4th, 2025
Compost Session at the Regenerators: Zero Waste Solutions Club
ICAW Event Description: This is a group that meets every Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM, momentum to built intergenerational links that help the local community be crafty and resourceful. Composting is at the core of our focus. Home and farm (as we live in the Ag Reserve) composting comes up on every single one of our sessions. Thus, to celebrate ICAW we are devoting the May session to all things compost. This is an open call to anyone who wants to join this in-person event to save money and reduce waste by composting. In future meetings we also touch base on Food preservation (how to compost scraps), Mending clothes (how to compost or not to compost certain textiles) and other related things on our fun journey to "walk the walk".
The location is Maggie Nightingale (Poolesville) Library, 19633 Fisher Ave, Poolesville, MD 20837, USA
https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/12621319
City: Boyds
Event Date: May 6, 2025
Missouri
Bokashi Composting Workshop
ICAW Event Description: This workshop will cover the basics of this method of fermented anaerobic composting. Bokashi is an ideal small-space system and can create a valuable soil amendment for the garden. With the Bokashi method, even dairy and meat are composted. An experienced volunteer leads all our composting workshops.
Register here: https://forms.gle/TgY2FP3XQmppmjpx7
City: Columbia
Event Date: 05/08/2025
New York
LIVING SOILS RISING
ICAW Event Description: On Sunday, May 4, 2025, join hundreds of artists, activists, neighbors, urban ecologists, soil dorks, dancers, healers and dreamers for LIVING SOILS RISING, three creative acts to seed-the-future for climate justice and healing at Under the 'K' Bridge Park.
Join a theatrical walking tour, water & soils ceremony, and a seeding-the-future activation.
Hundreds of us will gather where Indigenous land was taken for the birth of the fossil fuel industry from 1867 until today. We will witness, remember, and honor the harmed land and envision a livable energy future together.
Costume: Dress as your favorite fungi, plant or animal local to Northern Brooklyn.
May 4 RSVP and full performance line-up:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-soils-rising-sunday-may-4-tickets-1266594952599?aff=oddtdtcreator
City: Brooklyn
Event Date: May 4, 2025 3 - 7 PM
Compost Educator Presentation and Common Ground Screening
ICAW Event Description: A presentation featuring Laurie Farber, a local educator and compost organizer who has been promoting composting for many years. The presentation will be followed by a screening of the Tribeca Film Festival award winner Common Ground, the sequel to Kiss the Ground. This event is via zoom at 6:30 pm 5/7/25. For a link, contact Long Island Organics Council at liorganicscouncil@gmail.com.
City: Virtual
Event Date: 5/7/25
Compost Celebration with the LES Ecology Center
ICAW Event Description: Join Us for a Compost Celebration at the Union Square Greenmarket! Come celebrate composting, sustainability, and community with us on Wednesday, May 7 from 11am–2pm at the Union Square Greenmarket!
We’ll have interactive, hands-on activities throughout the day—perfect for all ages. Stop by our booth to learn, create, and connect with our team as we honor the power of compost and our beautiful planet.
Ongoing Activities Include:
🌱 Paint with soil
🪱 Learn about composting with worms
🚲 Touch and explore our stewardship trike
🧑🏫 Get your questions answered about NYC’s new curbside composting program
💬 “Ask a Composter” booth
🌍 Contribute to our community earth weaving
🍎 Drop off your food scraps for composting
🎁 Get a FREE 1-lb bag of compost when you sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media
…and more!
Let’s celebrate sustainability together—see you there!
City: New York
Event Date: 5/7/2025
3-Bin System Build at Smiling Hogshead Ranch Community Garden
ICAW Event Description: We will be installing a new 3-bin at the Smiling Hogshead Ranch Community Garden. You will learn about community composting, 3-bin systems and can join in on the build. Bring water, dress in long sleeves, and expect to get dirty. We are hosting this even in collaboration with Big Reuse to expand the NYC wide community composting network.
Check out these links for more information: https://bigreuse.org/pages/compost
https://smilinghogsheadranch.org/
Time: 10th May 2025 10am-1pm
Location: 25-30 Skillman Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oaQcijrY7XYnC1cd9
Join us for the half-day or for an hour!
City: Astoria
Event Date: 05/10/2025
North Carolina
Lunch-N-Learn Webinar: Adding Food Waste to a Composting Facility
ICAW Event Description: Are you looking to expand your composting operation to include food waste, but not sure where to begin? Join us for this informative and practical webinar that provides an introduction into the benefits, challenges, and logistics of incorporating food waste into your composting facility. This presentation will be led by Betsy LaForce and Orion Black-Brown from Green Mountain Technologies, and includes a Q&A with expert NC panelists: Matt Ball from NCSU's Composting Facility, Riley Alber from Wilmington Compost Company, Patrick Downey from McGill Compost, and Muriel Williman from the City of Durham's Department of Solid Waste.
In this session we’ll cover:
- The implications of adding food waste to a facility
- Key considerations for design, permitting, and feedstock management
- Common contaminants and how to reduce them
- Best practices and technology options for odor control and managing product quality
- Real-world examples of facilities that have successfully made the transition
Whether you’re managing a yard-waste facility, operating a farm, or working in municipal waste, this webinar will give you the tools and insights to confidently accept and process food-waste. This is a condensed version of the all day food waste composting workshop that Green Mountain Technologies provides during the USCC annual conference.
Register for the webinar here:
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/icaw-lunch-n-learn-webinar-adding-food-waste-to-a-composting-facility
City: Raleigh-Durham
Event Date: May 6, 2025
Webinar: Designing a Composting Pad Using CompostBuilder: Pad Planner
ICAW Event Description: In this short free 30-min webinar you will learn how to design a composting pad to layout windrows, aerated static piles, or large block-style piles using CompostBuilder: Pad Planner. At the end of the webinar you will receive a code for a free trial! A recording of this (with the code) will be available afterwards.
Agenda:
-Tons, cubic yards, and bulk density
-Throughput: volume and time
-Using Pad Planner to create pad layouts
-Q&A
City: Online
Event Date: 5/8/25
Back to Earth: A Compost Celebration
ICAW Event Description: Celebrate ICAW in Wilmington, NC at Pomegranate books on May 10th! Enjoy a children’s story hour and activity from 11-12pm, a compost and vermicompost presentation with the North Carolina Composting Council and our Coastal Composting Chapter, and meet Amber Grossman, the author of a recently published book, “Black Girls Gardening.” New Hanover County Recycling and Solid Waste and New Hanover County Soil and Water will also be at the event with information to share and games to play!
https://carolinacompost.com/international-compost-awareness-week-icaw/
City: Wilmington
Event Date: May 10, 2025
Ohio
Composting for Community: Closing the Loop to Support Local Food Systems
Description:
📅 Monday, May 5, 2025
🕐 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 The Foodbank Urban Garden – 56 Armor Pl, Dayton, OH 45417
You're invited to a fun, hands-on afternoon celebrating sustainability, gardening, and community impact—right here in Dayton!
As part of International Compost Awareness Week, we’re opening up our doors (and gardens!) to the public for a behind-the-scenes look at how composting and urban farming help us build a resilient community and fight hunger at the same time.
🌿 Take a tour of our award-winning compost facility
🌱 Explore our urban garden and hydroponic greenhouse
🌍 Meet local organizations making a difference
🧑🌾 Learn how your food scraps can help grow fresh produce for families in need
Whether you're into gardening, sustainability, or just looking for something cool to do with the family, this is a great way to connect with your community and see how small changes can lead to a big impact.
This event is free and open to everyone! Families, students, neighbors, and friends are welcome! Free registration link! https://forms.office.com/r/PqvmxzawkE
City: Dayton
Event Date: May 5th, 2025, 1-4pm
Oklahoma
OKC Celebrates ICAW 2025!
Description: May 2 Kickoff: Worm Parade
Monday: OKRA Lunch and Learn featuring a presentation and virtual tour of Fertile Ground Cooperative's composting facility with an in-person lunch and Zoom meeting. We will showcase community composting efforts with CommonWealth Urban Farms, OCASA Board Member Amanda Scofield, and Compost Fairyy's Crystal Walker.
Tuesday: Fertile Ground in person tour
Wednesday: Sustainable Placemaking panel with Lauren from OKC Beautiful, Oklahoma Permaculture Institute, and more speakers. Topics include Adopt a Park, school gardens, permaculture
Thursday: Scissortail Park Flower Garden and Compost Tour
Friday: Tour of the Sustainability Center at the University of Central Oklahoma and compost program with Broncho Bites (food recovery), community garden and food scrap composting
Saturday: Compost Festival at Scissortail Park 9am-1pm, featuring yoga, a vermicomposting workshop, panel talks, and vendors
City: Oklahoma City
Event Date: May 4-10
Pennsylvania
9th Annual Compost Giveaway at New Garden Growers Market
ICAW Event Description: Rinse out those buckets and get 'em ready for the 9th Annual Compost Giveaway at the New Garden Growers Market on Saturday, May 10, from 9am -12pm to celebrate International Compost Awareness Week!
As always, it is BYOB (buckets of course) and donations benefiting Chester County Food Bank are appreciated. Laurel Valley Soils will be giving away our STA Certified Premium Compost to help you grow the healthiest plants in your gardens this summer, just like many of Chester County food Bank's 70 active garden partner sites.
City: Avondale
Event Date: May 10th
Rhode Island
Going Commercial: Business & Event Composting
ICAW Event Description: Join Bootstrap Compost, the Center for EcoTechnology, and Epic Renewal to learn about options to reduce waste at your business or event! Learn about best practices to prevent food waste, how to create waste reduction strategies, and how local services can make going zero waste beautiful and easy.
More Info: https://epicrenewal.org/lrct/
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/going-commercial-business-event-composting-tickets-1335917076939?aff=oddtdtcreator
City: Providence
Event Date: Thursday, May 8
Lil' Rhody Compost Tour
ICAW Event Description: Celebrate International Compost Awareness Week with a tour of RI’s diverse composting ecosystem!
More info and register for events here: https://epicrenewal.org/lrct/
City: Multiple Locations
Event Date: Monday, May 5 - Friday, May 9
Virginia
Prince William Compost Awareness Day
ICAW Event Description: The Prince William County Solid Waste Division, in partnership with Convertus, will host its Compost Awareness Day event on Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Compost Facility, 13000 Hansen Farm Road, Manassas. Volunteers from the VA Cooperative Extension Prince William Master Gardeners will be present to share information and answer questions on composting and gardening. Keep Prince William Beautiful volunteers will be there to share community beautification volunteer opportunities.
Monster Organics staff will also be there to talk about composting and their food waste collection operation. Event attendees can drop off food scraps. Convertus, the company that operates composting manufacturing for Prince William County, will provide free compost samples (bring a bucket) and offer facility tours at 10:30 a.m. and 12 noon.
Event Recap:
- Compost facility tours at 10:30 a.m. and 12 noon
- Free compost samples (bring your own bucket or purchase at the event)
- Coupons for 20% off compost
- Backyard compost display
- Compost and gardening information
- Community beautification information
- Food scrap drop-off
Learn more about composting in the County at the Prince William Compost Awareness Day event - https://www.pwcva.gov/department/solid-waste-management/events
City: Woodbridge
Event Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
West Virginia
Youth Composting Education and Programming Virtual Information Session
ICAW Event Description: The Monongalia County Solid Waste Authority is hosting a free virtual Information Session with Guest Speaker, Lauren Click, Executive Director of Let's Go Compost. Lauren will be presenting during International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) 2025 to share how WV K-12 schools, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, 4-H or other youth groups can utilize Let’s Go Compost’s Free Classroom Composting Program to reduce food waste and more! All WV residents are welcome to attend! Although Monongalia County SWA is hosting this event, we want to share this information with the many WV SWAs, WV DEP Youth Environmental Program (YEP) Coordinators and other WV youth group leaders and educators, to help get the word out about Youth Composting Education Resources provided by Let's Go Compost and highlight the need to reduce food waste and compost.
City: Monongalia County
Event Date: May 7, 2025
International
Country: Nepal
Several Events
ICAW Event Description: We are a group of more than 20 organizations and Governmental bodies, planning to organize the International Compost Awareness Week, 2025. For this week-long event we are planning to conduct several events, such as training, social media awareness, commercial composting, rally with press conference and exhibition.
City: Kathmandu
Event Date: May 4-10
Country: Turkey
Bokashi Compost Education
ICAW Event Description: @kompost_0atik Instagram Page @kompostakademi
City: Kocaeli
Event Date: 06.05.2025
Region: Virgin Islands
Composting for the Corporate Girl
ICAW Event Description: We will be conducting short and fun video interviews with females that work in the corporate world asking them if they know what composting is and doing live Demo’s of the process to encourage them to start composting in the back yard or the balcony!
City: San Fernando in Trinidad and Tobago West Indies
Event Date: 4th -10th May
Region: West Africa
Composting for Regenerative Agriculture in Rural Communities in Nigeria
ICAW Event Description: SCL will be showcasing the benefits of compost in regenerative practices adopted by smallholder farmers in rural communities in Nigeria. SCL currently works with 84,000 smallholder farmers who are learning how to farm their crops using regenerative agriculture practices, including composting. This week, we will gather stories from the communities and share on our social media so others can be aware of the benefits of composting.
City: Abuja, Nigeria
Event Date: 4-10 May 2025
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