Residential Composting - Collection

  • Fruit and vegetable scraps

    Pasta, bread, cereal

    Cooked foods

    Egg shells

    Coffee grounds, filters, & tea bags

    Paper towels and paper towel rolls

    Wax paper

    100% paper products

    Pizza boxes

    Muffin wrappers

    Flour and sugar bags

    Plain paper plates not lined with plastic film

    Baked goods: Candies, cookies, pastries, cake, etc.

    Baking ingredients, herbs, spices

    Household plants including soil

    Pet food

    100% BPI certified compostable products

    Meat, bones, fish products

    Dairy products

Residential Composting - Drop-Off

  • One 5-gallon bucket per week

  • You may place (1) medium-sized pumpkin in the bin

  • No, but you may drop off yard waste at our facility. We charge a minimum fee of $15. Truck full of yard waste is $40. Landscape trailer is $65.

Residential Recycling

  • Mixed paper, metal cans, plastics #1 #2 & #5 (soda, water, salad dressing, laundry detergent, shampoo, and conditioner bottles; milk jugs; etc.), cardboard, and paperboard. Please place office paper or shredded paper into a clear plastic bag. Plastic bags are only accepted for containing paper.

  • Accepted items: all glass containers, e.g. beer and wine bottles, glass jars; home window glass; auto glass pieces. Not accepted items: Whole windshields; any composite glass product, including ceramic, Pyrex, Corningware, dinner plates/china.

  • Fertile Ground works with an Oklahoma-based glass plant that converts recycled glass into a cullet used to make new glass products.

  • Fertile Ground sends plastics to a recycling facility in Texas and to a facility in Missouri that turns waste plastic into pallets and outdoor products.

  • Fertile Ground sends aluminum to a recycling facility in Oklahoma and sends steel to a recycling facility in Texas.

  • Fertile Ground sends paper and cardboard to a facility in Texas, where it is turned into materials that are shipped to box plants in Texas, Arizona, California, and Mexico.

  • We offer both recycling and composting services for apartments and condos! Sign up for our Group Pick-Up here.

YARD WASTE

  • Leaves, grass clippings, tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter, wood chips, house plants, and shrubbery. Not sure if we’ll take it? Contact us!

Commercial Composting

  • We’re happy to talk with you about more sustainable waste management options. Feel free to contact us to discuss your specific needs.

Commercial Recycling

  • Fertile Ground can handle a wide variety of recyclable materials. Contact us for more information about how we can meet your needs.

  • Mixed paper, metal cans, plastics #1 #2 & #5 (soda, water, salad dressing, laundry detergent, shampoo, and conditioner bottles; milk jugs; etc.), cardboard, and paperboard. Please place office paper or shredded paper into a clear plastic bag. Plastic bags are only accepted for containing paper.

  • Accepted items: all glass containers, e.g. beer and wine bottles, glass jars; home window glass; auto glass pieces. Not accepted items: Whole windshields; any composite glass product, including ceramic, Pyrex, Corningware, dinner plates/china.

Zero-Waste Events

  • Most major food distribution companies carry compostable products. You can verify if a product is 100% compostable by entering the sku# here: https://bpiworld.org/

  • We’ve provided services for events from a small office party to a festival with 100,000 attendees.