Organic Waste Drop Spots

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Organic Waste Drop Spots 〰️

Locations

We do not accept waste in the winter. Drop spots closed from Nov 1, 2023 - April 29, 2024. Feel free to save your food waste and drop it off next spring! Meanwhile, check our events page for upcoming collection events.

Lloyd Jones Memorial Garden

The Lloyd Jones Memorial Garden is a community garden that grows fresh produce for the Fairbanks Community Food Bank. This garden is on land owned by the Corinthian Baptist Church. Please be respectful when dropping off your waste and do not leave waste around the bins or garbage in the church’s personal dumpster.

The Hope House

The Hope House has a community garden that grows fresh produce for the Hope Church of Fairbanks. Please be respectful when dropping off your waste and do not leave waste around the bins.

What to Drop Off

Thanks for taking the time to drop off your organic waste to help divert waste from the landfill and create an organic soil amendment for some local community gardens! We accept most everything organic. See below for the exceptions.

All drop spots are divided into color coded sections, nitrogen heavy GREEN material and carbon heavy BROWN material. Compost is made using a ratio of both, generally about 3 parts browns to one part greens. We appreciate you doing your best to separate your waste as accurately as

possible, it helps us tremendously when we make the compost piles. When you drop off your waste, you may see some of our compost piles in action. Feel free to take a look, you can even check the temperature with the thermometer in each pile. But please DO NOT add any waste to these piles. Once the piles are actively composting, adding new waste items to the pile will slow down the decomposition process. We will start a new pile with your waste each time the bins fill up. If this part of the process interests you, send us an email at compostfbx@gmail.com to talk about volunteering.

FAQ

We are accepting waste for our compost piles at 1679 23rd Ave, Fairbanks, AK 99701 (in the garden area) or on the corner of 23rd and S Barnette. The bins are labeled and color coordinated for easy drop off.
Reach out to us via email (compostFBX@gmail.com) or Instagram DM (@compostfbx) and we will happily answer any questions!
Compost FBX monitors and routinely empties the drop bins. If the bins are full when you go to drop off your waste, leave it next to the bin and kindly shoot us an email to let us know. We will get out there ASAP to empty the bins.
Shoot us an email! We are always looking to expand our program. Make sure to let us know who you are and that you’re interested in hosting a compost drop bin. We’d love to schedule a time to talk about it.