Residential Compost Program
Turn your food scraps into compost!
Composting food scraps is a BIG deal!
Washingtonians generate over 1.2 million tons of edible and inedible food waste each year.
Food makes up about 24% of all landfilled waste. And it creates a LOT of methane and carbon dioxide in the landfill. 58% of municipal landfill methane emissions comes from decaying food.
Community composting makes sense!
Recycle local nutrients: food scraps —> compost —> regenerate local soil —> grow more local food
Reduce landfilled material and greenhouse gasses from landfilling organics
Easily compost year-round in a bear-safe way (no tasty piles in your backyard to attract bears!)
Mitigate pests and rodents (it’s not just bears that love a tasty backyard pile!)
Save money on your transfer station tipping fees or curbside waste hauling
Ready to make a difference with your food scraps?
Join our Residential Compost Program!
Residential Compost Membership
How it Works:
Email info@methowrecycles.org to schedule a brief training (10 - 15 minutes) on how our compost program works. The success of this program relies on well-trained composters to keep contamination to a minimum.
After your training session, pay for your membership.
Start collecting your food scraps! Memberships allow for up to one 5-gallon bucket of food scraps per week.
Drop off your food scraps weekly:
Methow Recycles (Twisp), Thursdays, 10am - 4pm
Mazama Store, Saturdays, 8am - 10am
Where does your compost go from here? Staff from the B2G Compost facility in Winthrop will pick up the food scraps and turn it into compost! (No composting is done on-site at Methow Recycles or the Mazama Store).
