Help has

arrived

This Saturday, your Farmington Farmers Market takes a big step in helping you recycle food waste. And that means the stuff you can’t put in your regular recycling bin – egg shells, paper napkins and paper towels, fats and grease, dairy products, even meats and bones.

Basically, it’s composting made easy.

The program is being introduced this weekend by RRRASOC – that’s the Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland Country.

This Saturday, bring your food waste – including all that stuff we mentioned earlier – and deposit it in new, light-green collection carts near the regular recycling ones at the Pavilion. And come back any time – those bins will be there 24-7, not just during Market hours.

Here’s the best part: Recycling food waste isn’t just about reducing trash that does into landfills – which it does. It’s also about giving back to the earth the nutrients we’ve taken from it.

Win, win.