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BPI has officially launched its Commercial & Home Compostable Certification program. 🎉🌱 Unveiled last week at the #2025BPISummit by BPI Executive Director Rhodes Yepsen, the new certification offers a scientifically rigorous framework to clearly identify products that safely break down in home compost piles, enabling more households to participate in the circular bioeconomy through a known certification that consumers already trust. It builds on BPI’s existing commercial certification by requiring products to fully break down at lower, less controlled temperatures—while also limiting substances like PFAS, heavy metals, carcinogens, and endocrine disruptors. 🗓 Applications open Dec 1, 2025. In announcing this new certification, Rhodes Yepsen, BPI's Executive Director said, "This new certification addresses pent-up consumer demand, empowering individuals to divert more food scraps and food-soiled packaging into their backyard compost bins at a time when curbside and drop-off compost options remain limited for most American households. Our goal is to achieve widespread access to composting, and this certification gets us one step closer, acknowledging that composting can happen at different scales to meet diverse needs across the country." From backyard bins to commercial facilities, this marks another important step by BPI in establishing a trusted, science-based standard for composting at every scale. Read more in the Packaging Dive article by Katie Pyzyk published September 18, 2025 - visit the link in bio! . . . #Composting #SustainablePackaging #HomeCompostable #FoodWasteDiversion #CircularEconomy #ASTMStandards #MaterialsScience #Bioeconomy #Circularity #Scalability #FutureForward #ClimateSmart #ClimateAction #Sustainability #GreenEvents #SustainableATL #ATL

🌍 It’s here! The full documentary Hidden Heroes: Plastics Part 2 is now live. From composters and haulers to scientists, innovators, and community champions—these are the real heroes driving a circular bioeconomy. 💪🌱 While the world debates how to solve the plastics crisis, this film shows what’s already working: composting that diverts food waste, cuts methane emissions, rebuilds soils, and creates jobs. At BPI, we’re proud to have partnered with filmmaker Marco Ríos Bollinger and REWILD Studios to tell this story—one that proves compostable products and packaging, when verified and used responsibly, are a powerful part of the solution. 🎥 Watch the full documentary now at the link in bio. . . . #Compostables #HiddenHeroes #PlasticSolutions #CircularBioeconomy #ClimateAction #SustainablePackaging #UNPlasticsTreaty #HolisticSystems #FutureForward #Sustainability #Documentary #BPICertified #FutureForward #GreenEvents #ATL #ClimateAction

Ready to start #composting? It’s simpler than you think! Composting transforms food scraps into a nutrient-rich soil amendment, benefiting your garden and the planet. Here’s how to get started: 🌱Choose Your Method: Have a yard? Try a DIY pile, bury scraps, or use a compost bin. No space? Look for community drop-off options. 🌱Gather Your Materials: Balance “greens” (food scraps) and “browns” (dry leaves, cardboard) for a thriving compost. 🌱Maintain Your Pile: Turn it regularly to speed up decomposition. If it smells, add more browns. 🌱Be Patient: Finished compost can take anywhere from a few months to a year, depending on your method. 🌱Avoid Mistakes: Don’t add meat, dairy, pet waste, or plastic that is not certified to be home compostable. 🌍✨ BPI’s vision is to work toward a world without organic waste, and we support and encourage everyone to start composting, from municipal to home composting. Read this information-packed article to learn more about how to get started: https://nyti.ms/4ey6ccj

#WiseUpWednesday New data from the Compostable Field Testing Program (CFTP)—spanning 2,000+ mesh bag samples and 33,000+ dose trials—reinforces a core truth: certified compostable products perform as intended alongside food scraps when paired with real-world composting conditions. ✅🌱 Better data helps us keep improving products, standards, and infrastructure so certified compostables can perform more consistently in real-world systems. And this growing body of data helps move the entire industry forward. 💪🔁 Read more about what the data says in the BioCycle article, written by Emily McGill, Liv Johansson and Susanna Carson and published on May 4, 2026 at the link in bio. . . . #Composting #FieldTesting #Sustainability #Data #WhatTheDataShows #ClimateAction #CompostableProducts #CompostablePackaging #CertifiedCompostable

Happy International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW)! Not just this week but every week we celebrate the people on the front lines of organics recycling. 🌱 So far this year, BPI staff has visited composters and organics recycling operations across the country—including City of Modesto, Bennett Compost, Urban Canopy, WasteNot Compost, Washington State University's Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, and Rust Belt Riders—spending time boots on the ground with the people turning organic waste into valuable compost. For BPI, part of compost awareness means staying connected and collaborating with the haulers and composters who make organics recycling possible. Staying in touch with composters is how we better understand operational realities, contamination challenges, and how certified compostable products can best support the composting system. Because the compost that feeds healthy soil starts with the people making it every day. 💪🌎 Hear what composters and haulers from across the BPI network have to say about certified compostables at the link in bio. . . . #ICAW #Compost #OrganicsRecycling #Composters #SoilRegeneration #ClimateSmart

This International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), we’re looking ahead to where composting comes to life—on the ground. At the 2026 BPI Summit, we won’t just be talking about compost—we’ll be out in the field, touring real-world operations like Hammond Farms and Spurt Industries to see how composters at scale are truly feeding the soil that feeds us. 📍 Join us October 13–16 in Detroit, Michigan 🚨 New updates: - Hotel + travel details are now live (book early—Detroit fills up fast in October!) - Sponsorship opportunities are now available - Registration opens May 15—stay tuned. Let’s get boots on the ground and see circularity in action. 🌍 Visit the event link at the link in bio. . . . #ICAW #CompostAwarenessWeek #Compost #SoilHealth #CircularEconomy

“Our Power, Our Planet” starts with the choices we make and the systems we build. Composting is climate action. When food scraps and compostable products are recovered and returned to the soil, we reduce organic waste from landfills, cut harmful methane gas emissions, and support healthier communities. But real impact takes all of us. This Earth Day, consider your role in the system—and take action: ✅ Start composting at home or find a local drop-off program ✅ Purchase certified compostables -- support the momentum behind sustainable products & packaging ✅ Advocate for composting access &and infrastructure growth in your community 🌎 Happy #EarthDay! Check out ILSR’s Local Composting Toolkit at the link in bio. #EarthDay2026 #OurPowerOurPlanet #CircularEconomy #Composting #ClimateAction

We've highlighted composters from across the BPI network in a video series, spotlighting the operators working every day to turn organic waste into valuable soil amendments, while using certified compostable products to support cleaner streams and better outcomes for their customers. In this video, the message is clear: “We want compostables because they allow our customers to compost more. They provide a valuable feedstock, require less sorting, reduce contamination, and leave behind no persistent microplastics.” At a time when policymakers, municipalities, and businesses are asking important questions about the role of compostables in organics recycling, this series aims to elevate the voices of the people on the ground. Watch the whole video series at the link in bio. . . #Composters #CA #Policy #CompostableProducts #Composting #ClimateAction #Sustainability #FutureForward #SmartPolicy #OrganicWaste #OrganicsRecycling

Modesto is showing what it takes to make certified compostables work in California. 🌱✅ With support from the Closed Loop Center for the Circular Economy’s Composting Consortium grant program, led in partnership with BPI and with technical guidance from the US Composting Council, the city is scaling a system that includes: ✔️ Certified compostable products ✔️ Effective labeling ✔️ Intentional infrastructure investment The new labeling is key: clear, bilingual cart visuals show food scraps, yard waste, and BPI-certified compostable packaging together—removing confusion at the curb and driving proper participation. Through this infrastructure growth, Modesto is capturing more food scraps and turning them into compost. Read more in the BioCycle article at the link in bio. . . . #CompostableProducts #Compost #Modesto #CA #Sustainability #ClimateAction #ClimateSmart

Did you know that BPI is a member of the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty? We’re proud to be a part of their efforts to advocate for science-based, systems-driven solutions that prioritize real outcomes like composting and material recovery. Importantly, BPI’s vision, ‘A world without organic waste’, closely aligns with their vision, ‘A circular economy in which plastic never becomes waste or pollution, and the value of products and materials is retained in the economy’. Learn more about the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty at the link in bio. . . . #PlasticsTreaty #GlobalAction #CircularEconomy #PolicyMatters

🌱😂 Happy April Fool's Day–thanks for playing along! Go to the link in bio and see nothing but the facts about BPI’s circularity efforts, BPI-Certified compostable products, and more (no more jokes, we promise... but weren’t they fun?). Also, happy Earth Month. Let us know in the comments about how you’ll be celebrating the planet this April. Remember–Our Power, Our Planet! . . . #AprilFools #CompostablePackaging #ClimateAction #SolutionsBased #ZeroWaste

Happy International Zero Waste Day! 🌱 Unfortunately, nearly 1 billion tons of food are wasted globally each year, and ~60% happens at home. That’s not just a waste of food, but of resources, energy, and opportunity. Also, organic waste rotting in dumps and landfills is one of the largest urban methane sources—in the U.S., food waste drives 58% of landfill methane emissions! At BPI, we’re working toward A World Without Organic Waste—and that starts with keeping food scraps out of landfills and in systems where they can become a resource. Organics recycling is a critical part of that solution, and participation is everything. That’s where certified compostable products come in. From food scrap collection bags to food-soiled packaging, they’re designed to make it easier (and cleaner) for consumer entities, such as households, to capture and divert food waste. A zero-waste future takes all of us—better design, better systems, and better participation. Dive more into this topic by visiting the United Nation Environment Program’s interactive webpage all about zero waste solutions at the link in bio. . . . #ZeroWaste #Composting #FoodWaste #CircularEconomy #BPI