Redmond Community Compost Project

05/19/2011

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!~

04/27/2011

04/21/2011

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

04/14/2011

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!

City of Redmond, Oregon

04/02/2011

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

provides basic information about composting and on what materials are suitable for composting

03/28/2011

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

03/19/2011

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.

03/18/2011

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

03/17/2011

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

03/17/2011

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"