Interested in reducing the amount of waste you toss into your trash can, minimizing your environmental impact, or saving money on your trash bill? The Macalester-Groveland Community Council is about to open the city's first community organics drop-off site, just one block off Summit in the Patagonia store parking lot on Grand!
Open only to Macalester-Groveland residents, the site provides a sustainable resource where residents can take their compostable organic waste, meat, dairy, bones, and non-recyclable paper for delivery to a commercial composting facility. The Organics Recycling Drop-off Site offers even avid backyard composters the opportunity to compost more materials like freezer boxes, egg cartons, paper towels, napkins, meat and bones, dairy products, compostable tableware, pizza boxes too greasy for recycling pick-up, and much more.
Households who sign up to participate in this new program will pay a $40 fee, which provides unlimited access for one year and covers the cost of hauling the organics from the Drop-off Site to a commercial composting facility.
Learn more about this new program on Saturday, May 12th at 11:00am at Patagonia (1648 Grand Avenue) (please RSVP to lauren@macgrove.org). Or visit the Council's website (www.macgrove.org) or call 651-695-4000 for more information.
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