Community Composting

Waste Free WestEnd

Atlanta, GA, USA, Fulton County

Community Composting is all about bringing people in your community together, whether it's an existing community group such a neighborhood association, church, school, community garden or workplace; or a group coming together solely for this purpose, to divert their food waste, yard trimmings, and other organic matter, from landfill, and compost them instead. Community members can compost at home and use the compost in their own gardens. However, at-home composting doesn't generate enough heat to break down animal products (like meat, cheese, or bones) or biodegradable packaging. So the benefit of coming together as a community is that together you will have enough food waste to employ a local composting company to come and pick up your food waste from a centralized location, and these companies have the equipment to break down all food waste and compostable materials into useable compost! If your group is affiliated to a community garden the finished compost can even be used to fertilize your soil. Many municipal composting programs return composted food waste back to local farmers, creating higher-yield crops and reducing the need for chemical fertilizers.

Community Composting is all about bringing people in your community together, whether it's an existing community group such a neighborhood association, church, school, community garden or workplace; or a group coming together solely for this purpose, to divert their food waste, yard trimmings, and other organic matter, from landfill, and compost them instead. Community members can compost at home and use the compost in their own gardens. However, at-home composting doesn't generate enough heat to break down animal products (like meat, cheese, or bones) or biodegradable packaging. So the benefit of coming together as a community is that together you will have enough food waste to employ a local composting company to come and pick up your food waste from a centralized location, and these companies have the equipment to break down all food waste and compostable materials into useable compost! If your group is affiliated to a community garden the finished compost can even be used to fertilize your soil. Many municipal composting programs return composted food waste back to local farmers, creating higher-yield crops and reducing the need for chemical fertilizers.

Natasha Dyer telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok sekitar 2 tahun yang lalu
Ryan Henderson telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok sekitar 2 tahun yang lalu
Lily Scivicque
Lily Scivicque
sekitar 2 tahun yang lalu

Washington Park’s composting station is ready for your compost!
To access, turn into the alley behind Lena St from Ollie St; the station will be on your left just opposite the blue house.

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Savannah Schnall
sekitar 2 tahun yang lalu

Wonderful!! Hope you and your family are well :)

Lindsey Harrelson telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu
Clarice Farrell Wilson telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu
Ben Rybolt
Ben Rybolt
lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu

Our project has recruited 60 individuals and 2 businesses, to collect their yard waste and kitchen scraps for composting rather throwing them in the trash.

We currently have 5 community compost drop-off locations, where community members can drop off filled buckets of kitchen scraps.

We have made educational stickers to answer the question: "Can I compost this?" and distributed them with buckets that households could use to collect their compostable materials.

We have organized a community planting even where we beautified a local park by planting flowers and vegetables. Finished compost from our project was used to amend the soil during this event.

To date our project has diverted more than 3,000 lbs of waste from the landfill. We have averaged 1,000 lbs a month and we expect this number to grow as we continue to recruit households as we promote composting in our neighborhood.

The money we received thus far has been used to: purchase buckets for individual households, print promotional materials, and purchase compost bins and other supplies need for our community drop-off sites.

Additional funds will help to open more community drop off locations and to host another outreach/educational event.

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Ben Rybolt
Ben Rybolt
lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu

The compost pile is nice and warm. Atlanta is hot but to get all the way to 140 degrees you need active microbes. The microscopic organisms break down the kitchen scraps and yard waste to create compost.

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Ben Rybolt
Ben Rybolt
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Circle Garden Planting was a success :) A few buckets of finished compost was added to the garden and a few neighbors got connected to composting resources. Thanks for all those who helped :)

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Lily Scivicque telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu
Ben Rybolt
Ben Rybolt
lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu

New stickers coming soon!

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Savannah Schnall telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu
Julie Flowers telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu
Pouya Dianat telah bergabung Waste Free WestEnd Sebuah Community Composting kelompok lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu
Ben Rybolt
Ben Rybolt
lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu

Sign-up to be part of the initiative! The worms are hungry.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqfBo_9llazUQ_oLYbrufPhPWQG55sg7s74rhMFArxfjbX9g/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Ben Rybolt
Ben Rybolt
lebih dari 2 tahun yang lalu

There is a 5 gallon bucket available in the front yard of 936 White St SW. Neighbors are encouraged to drop off their kitchen scraps to this bucket at anytime.

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