March 17 (Tuesday) 7-8:30 p.m. 346 West James Street (the house with the purple bench) Our guest expert this month will be Professor Eve Bratman of F&M's Earth and Environment department, who will describe a project her students did in 2018 assessing the viability of commercial/community composting for Lancaster. Composting food and yard waste creates a beneficial carbon sink, removing carbon from the atmosphere; but landfilling the same waste creates atmospheric toxins. In spite of that, large-scale composting is a topic often lost in the buzz of plastic-straw mania. For example, in the most recent issue of the New Yorker, Rivka Galchen writes about New York City's garbage: "Paper and plastic are separated, but recycling of organics--food waste, yard waste, pretty much anything that rots--remains voluntary, even though such material makes up about a third of New York's trash. . . . But recycling of organics is arguabl...