Compost Collection
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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.
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Acceptable Compost:
- Food Scraps: Meats, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, breads, eggshells,
nutshells and coffee grounds.
- 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.
Yard and Food Waste Collection Service Area
Attention South Kitsap County, January 1st 2024, compost collection service was expanded!
View the Kitsap County curbside composting map to check if your home is eligible for this service
and learn about the Ins and Outs of curbside composting on the Kitsap County website.
Collection Schedule:
One 96-gal. green-lidded compost cart every other week in existing service areas.
View the Kitsap County curbside composting map to check if your home is
eligible for this service.
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".
Extra Yard Trimmings
There is a charge for additional units of yard trimmings (no food scraps) beyond
the basic service.
For yard trimmings that don't fit in your yard cart you may use:
Paper yard bags (available at home and garden stores), or
32-gal. cans with handles & lids (65 lb. limit) labeled "Yard" or
Bundles tied with sisal twine (4'x2' limit)
* Yard trimmings are not accepted in plastic bags.
Plastic bags are not compostable and cause processing and odor problems at the
composting facility.
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