Compost Collection
| 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 Compost:
- 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.
Compost collection is 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".
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Extra Yard TrimmingsThere 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: * Yard trimmings are not accepted in plastic bags. Plastic bags are not compostable and cause processing and odor problems at the composting facility. |
