Redmond Community Compost Project

To all who are anticipating a pick-up, sorry for the delay. I will be picking up next on Friday, May 20th. Tim is out of town, working on the river. I'm a little swamped doing everything myself. Sorry again!~

HEY EVERYBODY! Please come out to support us and our "farm" this Earth Day, Saturday, April 23rd, @ American Legion Park in Redmond, across the street from the High School and Rays. We'll show how to make your own jiffy/peat pots from scratch using newspaper and having an Organic Vs. Conventional taste testing! Moon Mountain Ramblers will be playing, and there will be a creature parade. SO COME ON DOWN

Check it out, Earth Day 2011 is almost here! Want to find out how to do something for your planet and perhaps smuggle a little fun along with you? Check out the Redmond Community Compost Project booth @ the Redmond Earth Day 2011 Event. - Saturday, April 23rd : 11:30 A.M.. Free food, awesome free music, and loads of green fun! Check out the event schedule today!

Earth Day 2011 City of Redmond, Oregon

Compost can capture and destroy 99.6 percent of industrial volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in contaminated air.
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/rrr/composting/basic.htm

Basic Information | Composting | US EPA provides basic information about composting and on what materials are suitable for composting

Residents save their municipalities valuable tax dollars by composting at home. Backyard composting is much cheaper than municipal collection and disposal.

Compost bioremediation has proven effective in degrading or altering many types of contaminants, such as chlorinated and non-chlorinated hydrocarbons, wood-preserving chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, pesticides, petroleum products, and explosives.

Mature compost can control several plant diseases without the use of synthetic fungicides or fumigants.

Food scraps are twenty-five percent of disposed residential waste in the Portland Metro region. -Metro, Internal Report, 2005

Out of the 31.1 million tons of food waste generated nationally in 2005, only 2.2% (.68 million tons) was recovered for composting. -US EPA, "Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2006"