Mr. Duprey was invited to present to a regular meeting of the Illinois Food Scrap Coalition to help them better understand compost markets and challenges. He spoke and took questions for about 20 minutes on compost market development and issues compost marketers are facing, and provided a basic understanding of the intersection of compost [...]
This week on our Facebook and Instagram pages, Naturcycle will be highlighting compost use as part of International Compost Awareness Week, May 6 through the 12th, 2018, sponsored by the Composting Council Research & Education Foundation. Our team will show off cool projects, our donations to support community farming, and promote exciting, sustainable uses [...]
Our founder, Charles Duprey, recently presented at the Northeast Recycling Council. This group of recycling coordinators and industry leaders examine recycling challenges including glass, paper and organics in our region. The US Composting Council also supported the event and it was a great day of discussion, education and learning that Naturcycle was proud to [...]
The United States Composting Council and the Market Development Committee are hard at work. One of our annual tasks is to work with plant food control officials through our representative, Ron Alexander. Mr. Charles Duprey serves as Vice Chair of this committee and these kinds of achievements are important to support our industry. A [...]
Naturcycle is committed to educating others, answering questions, and helping end users better understand compost applications. Green infrastructure is a crucial stormwater tool, and more landscapers are installing specialized structures like green roofs and rain gardens, along with directly using compost for slope stabilization and amending soils in place. Naturcycle and its team are [...]
An interesting development in the marketplace is the use of green roof media for at-grade applications. Green roof media can be a solution for many ground level soil needs, such as planters, planter boxes, tree boxes and other uses that are not typical elevated roofs. This development says much about the quality of many [...]
Saugerties, NY - Wednesday, September 13th Naturcycle participated in the New York Water Environmental Association's NYC Watershed Conference at the Diamond Mills Resort & Conference Center today. This event was focused on protecting the NYC watershed, the latest research in stormwater management, and important ways to protect our drinking water. Naturcycle exhibited at this [...]
For the last four years, Charles Duprey, President of Naturcycle, has taught part of the Compost Operation Training Course here in the Northeast. The Composting Council Foundation offers this course a few times a year around the United States. This class teaches the fundamentals of compost and composting, including the business aspects of composting, [...]
The United States Composting Council is launching a series of educational webinars for engineers, architects, landscape architects, site contractors and all those interested in compost use in stormwater management. This series with Forester University will cover a variety of compost use topics. Mr. Charles Duprey of Naturcycle serves on the USCC Market Development Committee [...]
How are you supporting International Compost Awareness Week this year? Learn more about #ICAW 2017 from the Composting Council Research and Education Foundation. Their mission to support the Composting Council, and provide education and scholarships are important to advancing compost.
