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Organics and Compost Industry Digest

Fresh daily headlines from across the industry. See how articles are curated below.

How This Feed Works

Sources

BioCycle Waste Today Waste Dive Waste Advantage

RSS feeds are pulled from each publication daily. Waste Advantage is fetched via Google News search.

How Articles Are Filtered

To keep the feed focused on what matters to organics and composting professionals, each article must match at least one organics term, plus at least one financial or regulatory term. A handful of highly specific terms pass automatically.

The regulatory category exists because policy news — draft rules, agency guidance, local mandates — is squarely relevant to operators but rarely uses the vocabulary of money. Requiring a financial term alone would filter it out.

Matching is done on each article's headline and the short summary supplied by its RSS feed, not the full article text. Terms match as substrings, so compost also catches composting.

Articles are also screened by title: award announcements, personnel moves, and similar non-substantive items are excluded — unless the title itself contains a composting or organics term, in which case the article is included regardless.

Organics & Operations Terms

compost composting organics organic waste organic recycling food waste biosolids feedstock windrow in-vessel aerated static pile yard waste green waste food scraps organics recycling waste characterization food waste diversion depackaging

Financial Terms

funding grant capital investment infrastructure finance budget contract revenue subsidy USDA EPA grant million billion awarded expand acquisition joint venture appropriations loan bond fee rate expenditure

Policy & Regulatory Terms

An article satisfies the second half of the filter with either a financial term above or a regulatory term here.

rule rulemaking proposed rule draft rule regulation regulatory ordinance mandate requirement guidance permitting legislation legislature statute compliance standards policy enforcement EPA state law landfill ban senate bill

Auto-Included Terms

These are specific enough to always pass regardless of other filters.

digestate SWIRF biosolids depackaging windrow in-vessel aerated static pile

Known Limitations

Because filtering reads only the headline and RSS summary, a relevant article whose short blurb happens to contain no financial or regulatory language can be missed — an operational story such as a municipality launching a new organics collection route, for example.

Publication cadence also varies by source. BioCycle posts in batches roughly every two weeks rather than daily, so the feed can be quiet between them even though it is checked every morning.

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