Composting (Environment)

Composting is one of the easiest ways to get involved with waste reduction and improving the environment you live in. Below is a list of organizations providing or specializing in compost in the DC-area region.

Alexandria DPW & Alexandria Recovery Stations

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A recycling center in Alexandria for a wide variety of things to recycle and free unscreened leaf and tree trimming mulch for Alexandria residents for pickup. Paid deliveries. In addition the Alexandria Resource Recovery Division now has Resource Recovery Stations at the City’s Famers’ Markets. Staff will be on site to explain how to compost food and yard waste at home, and accept items for composting. There will also be compost tubs available to purchase for $5.

Alexandria DPW & Alexandria Recovery Stations

Arlington County Department of Environment

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A recycling center in Arlington for a wide variety of things to recycle. This center also offers free unscreened leaf and tree trimming mulch for Arlington residents for pickup. Paid deliveries.

Arlington County Department of Environment

Azure B. LLC

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We offer dedicated, professional beekeeping services & equipment, compact composting systems and a Fruit Share program around the DC Metro area & southern Maryland.

Azure B. LLC

Chesepeake Compost Works

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Chesapeake Compost Works recycles organic waste materials into high quality compost and soil blends in both bags and bulk. Made in Baltimore, delivered to you.

Chesepeake Compost Works

Compost Cab

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Compost Cab is a production of Agricity LLC, a Washington, DC-based company committed to building healthier, more sustainable, more productive cities by offering home, commerical and other types of composting services.

Compost Cab

DC Water Biosolids Program: Bloom

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DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant treats more than 370 million gallons a day of raw sewage. As part of an ambitious program to improve the way we process and handle biosolids, DC Water has developed a long-range biosolids management program. The biosolids program is entirely focused on recycling an organic and nutrient-rich material in an environmentally safe and beneficial manner. All of the more than 1,200 wet tones of biosolids produced daily is reused through a diverse land application program that improves the soil for agricultural production and other projects.

DC Water Biosolids Program: Bloom

DC Water Biosolids Program: Bloom - Specific Information on Composting

DPR Urban Garden Division

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DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.

DPR Urban Garden Division

DPR Urban Garden Division - Specific Information on Composting

DPW Fort Totten Transfer Station

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The Department of Public Works makes it easy for residents to dispose properly of solid waste, household hazardous waste, unwanted electronic equipment (E-cycling) and provides personal document shredding at the Ft. Totten Transfer Station. The Department of Public Works will also provide District residents with up to five 32-gallon bags (bring your own bags) of free unscreen compost/mulch weekdays, 1 pm to 5 pm, and Saturdays 8 am to 3 pm

DPW Fort Totten Transfer Station

Fat Worm Compost

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We collect your table scraps, yard debris and other organic materials from your commercial location and transport them to a composting facility to be made into rich soil for farmers and gardeners.

Fat Worm Compost

Greenbelt Recycling Center

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Recycling center in Greenbelt that accepts a large variety of things to recycle.

Greenbelt Recycling Center

Greenbelt Recycling Center - Specific Information on Composting

Growing Soul

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Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.

Growing Soul

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)

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The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) - Specific Information on Composting

Maryland Environmental Services

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MES provides services at competitive rates to government and private sector clients and works on projects including water and wastewater treatment, solid waste management, composting, recycling, dredged material management, hazardous materials cleanup, storm water services and renewable energy. We provide expert engineering, monitoring and inspection services.

Maryland Environmental Services

Maryland Environmental Services - Specific Information on Composting

MOM’s Organic Market Recycling Center

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Drop off residential recycling center for customers to sustainably recycle things like food scraps, cellphone, batteries, electronics, and more.

MOM’s Organic Market Recycling Center

Prince George’s County Organics Composting Facility (Western Branch)

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Prince George’s County manages the Western Branch Composting Facility and contracts with MES to operate the facility in Upper Marlboro, MD. Yard waste (including grass clippings, leaves, brush, small branches and Christmas trees), is collected from approximately 158,000 households in the County and delivered to the facility. Once the yard waste is delivered, it is ground, placed in windrows and processed into compost. The compost, known as Leafgro©, is sold to wholesalers in bulk. Residents may buy Leafgro© from retailers.

Prince George’s County Organics Composting Facility (Western Branch)

Prince George’s County Organics Composting Facility (Western Branch) - Specific Information on Composting

Takoma Park Public Works Department

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This is the Public Works Facility for the City of Takoma Park. In addition to the staff and equipment that serves the City, the facility also has stock piles of leaf mulch and wood chips available for anyone to self haul. The area with the leaf mulch and wood chips is accessible 7 days a week. The City also offers delivery, for a fee, ($65 for 3 yards, $105 for 7 or 10 yards) within 15 miles of Takoma Park. To schedule delivery call 301-891-7633 8:30 to 5 Monday through Friday. Deliveries are on Friday only.

Takoma Park Public Works Department

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