Need a Bigger Bin?
Hello Composters!
It’s heating up and and lawns are thriving. Order a larger bin for all your grass clippings and yard debris
Did you know one of the things that inspired the inseption of Missoula Compost was the sight of black garbage bags lining the curb on garbage day? If you have ever opened a garbage bag full of grass clippings that has sat in the sun for very long, you know the rotten smell of methane and other gasses that seep out of it.
Methane is created when organics break down without the presence of oxygen, such as grass clipping sealed in a plastic bag. Methane (carbon monoxide) is a potent greenhouse gas and over the course of 100 years, methane gas has the potential to trap 80 times more heat than the same amount of carbon dioxide (C02). When bags of organic material end up in the landfill, that methane gas can work its way out of the ground and into our atmosphere. According to the EPA, landfills are the third largest man made contributor of methane gas that ends up in our atmosphere. This is one of the many reasons why composting is so important.
During the composting process, oxygen is pumped into organic material so that methane can’t form. As it breaks down, microbes and fungus feast on all that rotting material and turn it into compost.
Here are some materials from your yard you may not know that can go in your bin:
Any plant material including weeds. The weed seeds cook out during the compost process.
Leaves
Dead garden plants including root balls
Dead houseplants
Poison Ivy? Sure
Home grown marijuana plants and stalks.
Branches, if they are too big, just put them next to your bin.
Unpainted boards and pallets
Too much yard debris to fit in your bin? place extra material in an old garbage can or large paper leaf bags and we will take them. A charge of $5.00 will be added to your bill for up to every three bags collected outside of your bin.
From the team at Missoula Compost,
Sean, Jenny, Tyler, and Catherine