Do you know how to compost?
Learn how easy it is to do and save money as well as enrich your garden soils.
Composting can also save the town money by reducing the amount of tonnage that goes in the hopper. To transport the material in the hopper costs the town over $41 per ton.
30% t0 40 % of material that goes into the hopper is organic matter that could be composted.
For the year of 2017, 30% of the tonnage in New Gloucester’s hopper equals 410 tons. At $41 per ton for disposal of just organic matter, the cost to the town was $16.810!
Learn more about how easy it is to compost by visiting the display during February at the New Gloucester Library.
There is material to take home as well as a drawing for a compost bucket with liners for those that fill out a very short survey about composting.
New Gloucester Environmental Resource Committee
February 2018
