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 ------ (Sign up for food / yard
collection.) Take yard trimmings to a transfer station that accepts "clean green".
