Please scrape your food waste and napkins ONLY into the compost bucket. Please do not contaminate the compost with paper plates (our compost facility has just asked us not to send these), Pepsi cups, disposable utensils, plastic condiment cups, etc. This contamination has been ending up on a local farm’s land. If you have any food waste related questions please contact our food waste intern, Celia Darling, at darlincr@clarkson.edu. Thank you so much for your understanding and happy composting.
Here is a photo of Clarkson food waste at the Whitten Family Farm before it is mixed with wood chips and aerated in the compost piles. The farmers are consistently pulling plastic waste and waxy coated paper products out of the piles.