Home Composters
The Fresh Start Market & Espresso Shop and Marion County Public Works - Environmental Services have joined together to offer you an opportunity to purchase a variety of quality composting bins.
They are being offered for sale to promote backyard composting.
Make composting work for you. Pick a location in your yard that is convenient to use. Feed your composter a balanced diet of a variety of vegetation.
Please call ahead & confirm availability at (503) 585-4956.
More information on composting.
Remember - Keep it Simple!
Kitchen Compost Carrier - $16.25
This little bucket makes it easy to carry your fruit & vegetable scraps to your composter or to the yard debris roll cart. It has a charcoal filter to eliminate smells and it can be mounted on the inside of a kitchen cabinet to save counter space.
Made from recycled plastic.
3-Pack Replacement Filters - $8.50
Kitchen Compost Carrier - $10.00
This 2-gallon pail has a handy oval shape to make it easy to insert a plate and scrape all of the scraps into the pail for easy transport to the mixed organics cart (formerly known as the yard debris cart) - you can line it with a piece of newspaper for easy transfer. Are you a backyard composter? Get an extra one to separate out fruit and vegetation scraps to enrich your backyard pile.
Made from recycled plastic.
Ben's Bin - $20.00
Recycled content,
purchased locally
Compost Turner - $19.99
Turns compost without resorting to the traditional back-breaking job of removing and reloading by shovel or pitchfork. Simply plunge the Compost Turner into the compost pile; as it is withdrawn, the heavy-duty blades open to aerate and turn the compost. Sturdy, professional quality. (34 in. / 86 cm long)
