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Compost Your Veggies
Reduce your food waste
Residential customers can now place vegetative food waste in their yard waste carts. Compost your fruits and vegetables, pasta and tea bags along with yard and garden trimmings. A recent study shows that 30% of the residential waste stream in Sonoma County is food waste totaling about 800 tons per week. This is a resource that can enhance Sonoma County soild instead of being landfilled.
 Recyclenow.org - Compost Your Veggies
How to Recycle Yardwaste:
What's OK to include in your Yardwaste cart:
- Fruit
- Vegetables and peelings (cooked/raw)
- Grass Clippings
- Leaves & Weeds
- Brush/Berry Vines
- Landscape Prunings
- Tree trunks 6-30" diam.
- Coffee Grounds & Filters/tea Bags
- Pasta/Rice
- Bread
- Egg Shells
- Manure/Bedding
- Wood Ashes (cold)
- soiled paper (napkins, paper towel)*
- *Will accept, but we do not encourage.
What's Not OK:
- Meat/Bones
- Dairy
- Cooking Oil/ Liquids
- Poison Oak
- Palm Fronds/Trunks
- Cactus
- Bamboo
- Pampas Grass
- Sod
- Dirt/Soil
- Rocks/Cement/Brick
- Pet Feces
- Tree Stumps
- Compostable Plastics
- Plastic Bags (Lawn Bags)
- Lumber/Wood
- Sudden Oak Death Infested Material
- Ashes from BBQ
- Other Refuse/Garbage (Glass, Metal,…)
Wood Discards
What's OK:
- Clean Dimensional Lumber (Unpainted)
- Pallets
- Saw Dust
- Plywood/OSB
- Wood Chips
- Wood Siding
What's Not OK:
- Painted/Stained Wood
- Pressure Treated Wood
- Particleboard
- Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF)
What Happens to my Yard Waste?
 | Yardwaste collected in the Sonoma County curbside programs is taken to the Sonoma County Central Landfill where it is processed into compost and mulches.
Currently, the 18 acre compost facility receives 200 tons per day of yardwaste. This is material which used to go into the landfill.
Compost and mulches generated with the curbside yardwaste collection program are used to rebuild Sonoma County soils. They protect valuable topsoil from erosion due to wind and rain, suppress weeds, conserve water and attract earthworms.
The compost and mulches generated at the facility are allowable on certified organic farms and used by backyard gardeners, landscapers, grapegrowers and public agencies.
For more information about compost, contact Sonoma Compost at 664-9113. |
When to put out your Yardwaste Cart:
- Yardwaste is collected every week on your regular collection day.
Where to put your Yardwaste Cart:
- Please place your yardwaste cart at the curb next to your trash container allowing at least three feet of space between containers.
- All material must be in the container. Loose material will not be collected.
Questions?
- Call Santa Rosa Recycling & Collection at 586-1478.
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