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Backyard composting allows you to turn your yard waste and food scraps into soil-enriching compost, right at home!
What To Compost
- Kitchen waste (fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells, etc.)
- Tea leaves and coffee grounds
- Lawn clippings (use thin layers so they don’t mat down)
- Chopped or broken leaves (large leaves take a long time to break down)
- Shredded branches
- Garden plants (disease-free plants)
- Shredded paper
- Weeds (before they go to seed)
- Straw or hay
- Newspaper
- Wood ash (sprinkle lightly between layers)
Do Not Compost
- Meat scraps, dairy items, bones, and fatty trash (these should be bagged and added to your yard waste container
- Excessive wood ashes (counteracts with manures)
- Sawdust (generally slows the decomposition of the pile)
How To Order A Compost Bin
Cost: $56.00
Compost bins can be purchased and collected at the Municipal Services Cashier window located at City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue Room 106.
For more on composting visit www.smartgardening.com