Here at Green Mountain Compost, we make compost on a large scale. Unlike most backyard compost piles, our compost is carefully formulated using a wide variety of inputs and even our smallest piles are huge weighing in at hundreds of tons of mixed ingredients per pile! We actively aerate our piles and frequently monitor them to maintain the ideal amounts of oxygen and moisture for the microbial web that drives the composting process. By achieving ideal conditions, our pile temperatures get really hot really quickly – sometimes within hours.
The high temperatures of our compost process allow us to accept many items that simply don’t work in a backyard compost pile. While you might want to think twice before adding meat, bones, or other potentially tasty treats for four legged critters to your backyard compost pile, these ingredients work great for our composting process. Other materials such as dirt, sod, and metal don’t work so well and are not acceptable in our compost.
Please Contact Us if you are unsure whether your item is compostable.
Find disposal options for your non-compostable items: search the CSWD A-Z list.
Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm
We recommend calling ahead to confirm these hours during the beginning and end of the seasonal period. We create an extended schedule to coincide closely with the gardening season, to make sure our staff is available when demand for our soils is at its peak. If the weather begins to warm up in April, we may start extended hours earlier than listed below.
