Convenient Composting

Contributed by Corliss Davis, former BGC President and current Hospitality Co-Chair

Community composting is now available for a one-year trial at the Belfast Transfer Station! As of November 1, 2024, Belfast residents can drop off food scraps on the lower level behind the main building. Subscribers ($18/mo.) receive 5-gallon buckets to use at home and exchange for clean buckets from blue cabinets at the Transfer Station. They will then receive free compost in the spring. Non-subscribers can empty their own containers into black totes at the Transfer Station and, if they choose, buy compost at scrapdogscompost.com.

If you don’t compost at home; don’t compost during winter months; or would like to be able to compost more things (meat, bones, cheese, uncoated paper, and small amounts of yard waste), here’s your chance to join in on the benefits of composting.

So, what are some of those benefits?

• Mitigate climate change by reducing methane emissions from organic materials decomposing anaerobically in a landfill.
• Turn wasted food into a useful product that can be used to grow more food right here in Waldo County.
• Use fewer trash bags and save tax dollars for trash hauling and landfill-related costs.
• Prevent leaching dangerous chemicals from wet garbage in landfills.

Questions? Contact the Belfast Transfer Station at https://www.cityofbelfast.org/255/Transfer-Station or Scrapdogs Compost at the website above or at (207-977-2727).