Western offers compostable organics and food waste collection service. Call our Customer Service Department at 303-444-2037 today to sign up for this service.
What can you compost?
- Food waste (dairy, meat and bones are okay)
- Coffee grounds and paper filters
- Wet and/or waxed cardboard
- Paper towels, napkins and paper placemats
- Paper packaging (if not plastic or metal coated, waxed is okay)
- Paper cups and plates (if not plastic coated, waxed is okay) (no Styrofoam)
- Flowers and plants
Click one of the following for a complete list of compostable materials.
English Composting Guidelines
Spanish Composting Guidelines
Why should you sign up?
- It’s easy! Western offers compostables collection service in 64-gallon carts and in 2- and 3-cubic-yard containers. We will collect your compostables once or twice per week, meeting your individual needs. Composting guidelines in both English and Spanish are posted on our composting carts and composting dumpsters.
- It’s clean! Western will rinse out your container(s) using a pressurized water tank mounted on our collection truck. Since no plastic bags are allowed with this service, we will help keep your container clean each time we provide service.
- It qualifies for a city of Boulder rebate that will help pay for the service. The city of Boulder currently has a composting collection incentive in place to help you pay for our new service. The City will rebate $2.50 per cubic yard toward the cost of composting collection service. Western will show this rebate on your monthly invoice as a credit toward the service cost.
- It will reduce the trash tax you pay. In addition to the City helping to pay for composting collection service, you can also save the $.74 per cubic yard trash tax on every cubic yard of waste you switch from trash service to composting service.
What happens to my compostable materials?
Western has its own composting facility. The compostables that are collected on route are ground with yard waste material and composted. The end product, Western’s “Green ‘N Grow” compost, is then available for sale to the public in bags or in bulk by the yard. Our Green ‘N Grow compost contains no manures or bio-solids and is ideal for all planting and gardening needs.
We have collection programs to address virtually all of your disposal and recycling needs.
Our Sales Representatives are happy to come to your business to help you redesign your trash and recycling service and incorporate composting collection.