Composting your yard and food debris helps to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, improve soil quality, reduce the need for
chemicals and fertilizers and save water.
Acceptable Yard and Food Waste:
Food Scraps: Meats, dairy products, fruits and vegetables,
breads, eggshells and nutshells, coffee grounds, and tea bags.
Food-soiled Paper: Pizza boxes, paper towels & napkins, paper
egg cartons, paper grocery bags with food scraps, and coffee
filters.
Yard Debris: Grass, leaves, weeds, pine needles, plant trimmings,
and branches less than 3 inches in diameter and less than 4 feet in
length.
Collection Schedule:
Yard and Food Waste are collected every other week from subscribers.
Options for Disposing of Yard Trimmings:
Compost in
your yard (most energy efficient choice!) Put yard
trimmings in a yard cart to be collected at the curb ------ (Sign up for food / yard collection.) Take yard
trimmings to a transfer
station that accepts "clean green".