2025 Certified Compost Professionals

 2025 Graduates missing from the photo:

• Becca Naber - Beaver County Department of Sustainability and Waste Management
• Michael Stettler - Monroe County Waste Management Authority
• Constance Bretz - City of Lebanon
• Terry Keene - Keene Environmental Consulting

The PROP Organics Committee in coordination with the PROP Certification Committee started a new Certification in 2025.  Along with becoming a Pennsylvania Certified Recycling Professional (CRP), you can now also become a Certified Compost Professional (CCP). 

Every other year (Odd years – 2025 / 2027 / etc.) PROP will be scheduling the Core classes required to obtain a Certified Compost Professional (CCP) Certification. Even years (2026 / 2028 / etc.) PROP will be holding classes / tours / webinars throughout the year, and you will be able to obtain re-certification credits towards maintaining your (CCP) certification.

Once you have taken the core classes and passed the 30-35 question CCP Exam you will receive your certificate.  You have 3 years to complete the program once you take the first class.

Maintaining your CCP:

Once you obtain your Certified Compost Professional Certification, you will need to acquire 30 hours of (Organics specific) classes / tours / webinars / events over the course of 3 years to be re-certified.

Required / Core Classes: 

• Fundamentals of Composting
• Recipe Development, Feedstocks, Composting Methods, and Formulas
• Processing Equipment Demonstration & Safety - held at the PA Timber Show in Pennsylvania Furnace, PA.

Held every other year (Odd years) at the PROP Annual Recycling & Organics Conference

• Pre-Conference - Hands on tour visiting to a working compost site, including "demonstration on basic processes, windrow building, turning and screening, and temperature monitoring"
• Siting the Compost Facility - Design and Layout
• Compost Business and Economics
• Odor Generation & Control

• Recycling 101 - Practice & Theory - (14 hours / 2-day class held every October) a required class for both the CCP & CRP.

• Individuals who are already CRP & SCRP don’t need to take this.  Anyone who has already taken 101 also does not need to take this class in order to get their CCP.

Typical Financial Investment:

• Fundamentals of composting - $75 Member / $125 Non-member
• Recipe Development Feedstocks Composting Methods & Formulas - $225 Member / $275 Non-member
• Processing Equipment Demonstration & Safety (PA Timber Show) - $205 Member / $255 Non-member

•  Pre-Conference Organics Tour & Onsite Hands-On Training - $275 Member / $415 Non-member

• Siting the Compost Facility – Design & Layout – (Included with PROP Conference Registration)
• Compost Business & Economics - (Included with PROP Conference Registration)
• Odor Generation & Control - (Included with PROP Conference Registration)
• CCP Exam - $30

Approximate Financial Investment:

• PROP Member - $1560.00 - (this includes the PROP Annual Conference Registration of $750 - Member rate)