Recycling Materials - Organics (food waste & food soiled paper)
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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 caddy, 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.
Don’t use plastic shopping bags or other kinds of plastic bags or biodegradable bags. Residents can choose to use other smaller compostable bags to put in our 13-gallon Green Bag Organix bag.
Step 2:
Empty your kitchen caddy into the 13-gallon green BPI-certified bag.
Unlike most plastic trash bags, the Green Bag Organix bag is specially made to be compostable. All your household’s organics, including flattened and folded pizza boxes, go into that special Green Bag Organix bag..
Step 3:
For trash day, tightly hand-tie the 13-gallon Green Bag Organix bag liner and place it inside your regular trash cart for curbside pickup. We’ll separate all Green Bag Organix from other trash at our facility. Then, they’ll go to an industrial composting facility.
After going through an industrial composting facility, recycled food waste from households like your swill be converted into nutrient-rich compost.
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 Green 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.