Compost giveaway for Menlo Park residents on May 11 &12

Menlo Park residents can get free compost starting 8:00 am on Saturday, May 11, and continuing to noon on Sunday, May 12, at the Burgess Park parking lot, Alma Street and Burgess Drive.

The event is self-serve so please bring your own shovels, gloves and containers to fill.

This compost comes from your residential green organic carts at home and at work. The food scraps collected from the green carts are sent to two commercial composting facilities where it goes through a process where it breaks down back into a soil-like product, also known as finished compost. The finished compost is a helpful soil amendment, jam-packed full of nutrients, which is great for gardens and landscaping projects.

To make high-quality compost, please keep plastics out of the green compost carts and bins. To request free kitchen pail, please contact Recology at 650-595-3900 or learn how to compost at home.