Composting: How it Works

Step 1
Food scraps and food-soiled paper are collected.

Step 2
Midwest Fiber Recycling picks up the materials and delivers them to the Illinois State University Farm.

Step 3
Farm employees and ISU students mix the compostable waste with livestock manure with leaf and yard waste from the campus and community.

Step 4
The mixture is then laid out in rows where it ages into a potent fertilizer used by the university and available for purchase by commercial landscaping companies.
 

For more information or to join the Community Composting program, call Midwest Fiber Recycling at 309.452.0064.