Calling all gardeners! Together we're trying to redirect high-quality food waste away from our landfill (where it produces methane, leachate, and costs rate payers $$) and instead turn those organics into compost. There's a variety of ways to participate and get involved. One or more might be right for you!

In your backyard

• Start a compost pile in your own backyard with your own yard and kitchen waste
• Our Midtown Garden Depot has leaves and other materials to mix with your grass and kitchen waste
• We're here to help! Reach out with questions and for help getting started.

With a neighbor

• Use the website ShareWaste to find neighbors nearby who are interested in taking organics to feed their compost piles, chickens, etc,
• Advertise to your neighbors that YOU want to be a collection spot and compost for them
• Share the cost and of a SWS curbside pink cart with a neighbor.

With the community

• Participate in our community composting program by dropping off organics (take a bucket, leave a bucket) at one of our collection sites where it'll be fed to animals and composted
• Join our weekly composting workparties, learning and teaching  composting while making compost for the neighborhood.
• Talk with your local store and restaurant owners about participating. We can help turn their high quality food waste into animal feed and compost for gardens and landscaping. Read about our partnership with Providence Hospital to get a better idea of what that could look like.