Recycling Materials - Organics (food waste & food soiled paper)
Organics Recycling
How the program works
Step 1:
Discard food waste and food-soiled paper from meals, your refrigerator
and the pantry into a kitchen compost bucket, separate from your other household
trash.
Use a kitchen scraps recycling setup that is most convenient for you and
your household. You may use any sturdy washable container as a kitchen compost bucket.
Please don’t use plastic shopping bags or other kinds of plastic bags. They will not compost.
Step 2:
Empty your kitchen compost bucket into the 13-gallon Blue Bag Organics BPI-certified bag.
Unlike most plastic trash bags, the Blue Bag Organics liner is specially made to be compostable. All your household’s organics, including flattened and folded pizza boxes, go into that special Blue Bag.
Step 3:
For trash day, tightly hand tie the 13 gallon Blue Bag Organics liner and place it inside your regular garbage cart for curb-side pickup. We’ll separate all Blue Bag Organics from other trash at our facility. And off they’ll go to an industrial composting facility.
Only place 13 gallon BBO liners in the garbage cart. Smaller bags will not be collected.
GOOD STUFF
Food waste and food-soiled paper are called organic waste. It includes:
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KEEP OUT
These items should not go into your kitchen compost bucket or Blue Bag Organics liner:
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If you have any questions about how to join and use this program - please call Randy's Environmental Services (A Republic Services Company) at (763) 972-3335. Service is free to St. Bonifacius' residents.