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, 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.

Collection Schedule:

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
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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.