Composting
One day compost bin sale
Date: Saturday,
Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. First come, first served. While quantities last.
Sale items:
- Earth Machine composters for $30 (a $100 value). Also includes free home composting handbook.
- 208 litre rain barrels for $50 (a $120 value)
- compost turners for $15
- kitchen scrap pails for $7
Prices include taxes. Major credit cards, debit cards or cheques (payable to Norseman Plastics) preferred. All sales final. No retailers please.
Locations:
- Garden City Shopping Centre (2305 McPhillips Street – parking lot along Kingsbury Avenue behind Canadian Tire)
- Polo Park Shopping Centre (1485 Portage Avenue - parking lot along St. James Street across from The Bay)
- Toys R Us (1560 Regent Avenue West - parking lot adjacent to Regent Avenue)
- St. Vital Centennial Arena (580 St. Anne's Road at Meadowood Drive)
What is composting?
Composting is the natural process of breaking down organic material, such as kitchen and yard waste, to produce a nutrient-rich, soil-like material. The process works with the help of micro-organisms such as bacteria and fungi combined with air and moisture.
Why should I compost?
- Composting turns kitchen and yard waste into usable resources - for free.
- It benefits plants, trees and shrubs by returning valuable nutrients to the earth and increasing water retention of soil.
- Composting reduces the amount of garbage sent to the landfill. Composting can reduce your household garbage by approximately one-half.
What materials can be composted?
Most organic materials, such as:
- grass clippings
- garden waste, flower clippings and leaves
- weeds (before they flower)
- fruit and vegetable scraps
- tea leaves, tea bags, coffee grounds and filters
- nutshells and eggshells
Do not compost:
- weeds gone to seed
- meat, fish and bones
- nuts
- animal or human waste
- rhubarb leaves
- diseased plants
- dairy products
- oils and fats
What can I do with the finished compost?
Finished compost is a free and natural alternative to store-bought chemicals and fertilizers and can be used in a number of environmentally friendly ways:
- A natural fertilizer in flower and vegetable gardens
- On the soil surface around trees and shrubs
- For house plants and planter boxes
- As lawn top dressing
- To make compost "tea" to water flowers, vegetables, house plants or trouble spots on the lawn
How to compost
For detailed information on composting, contact the Green Action Centre composting information line 
or sign up for their free composting workshop .
Additional information
- View our related grasscycling / mulching information. Just leave the grass clippings on the lawn after mowing. The clippings quickly dry out, decompose, and recycle nutrients back into the soil and make your lawn healthy and green. Every time you throw away one bag of grass clippings, you are throwing away about 1/4 pound of lawn fertilizer!
- You can recycle your bagged yard waste free of charge by dropping it off at any seasonal leaf it with us yard waste depot. It will be composted into a reusable soil-like material and used to landscape finished landfill areas.
- Loose or bagged yard waste, including leaves and branches less than 100 millimetres (4 inches) in diameter, can be dropped off year-round at Brady Road Landfill. Tipping fees will not apply. However, should any load contain other materials, then fees will be applied on the entire load. Please use lane one when entering the landfill and staff will direct you to the leaf it with us yard waste compost drop off area across the road from the scale.
- In the Northwest area with automated cart collection, yard waste can be set out during the leaf it with us bi-weekly curbside collection program in May and October.
- Information is also available by calling the recycling and garbage information line at 204-986-8888, code 9813 or contacting 311.
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Last updated: May 10, 2012 |
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