Composting

Yard Waste Composting: The Town of Manchester offers an extensive yard waste collection program. The program collects bagged leaves and grass, brush and Christmas trees. More information on how to prepare these oprganic materials can be accessed by clicking here. All of this material, as well as the leaves that are collected by the Town through the fall/winter curbside leaf vacuum collection, are composted by the Town of Manchester, using windrow composting. This compost is available to town residents by visiting the Town's landfill, please call 860-647-3248 or email for more information on obtaining compost.

Home Food Waste Composting: Residents of the Town of Manchester can recognize a significant decrease of household trash by choosing to compost food waste scraps at home. There are several methods of how to do home composting, as well as online resources. More information can be found in the recycling links section. The three primary methods of composting are listed below, with links to example composting containers. (Please note that these are just examples, these products are not endoresed by the Town of Manchester)

• Outdoor Composting - utilizes some type of composting container to store organics wastes and allows decomposition into compost
• Vermi Composting (Worms) - can take place indoors or outdoors, a special container is required
• Indoor Automated Composting - requires specialized machine to store, turn and aerate organic waste and turn into compost

How to Compost: The Basics of Home Composting

Leaf Windrow Composting at the Manchester Landill, Fall 2009