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.

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.

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.

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 :)

New stickers coming soon!

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

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.