No longer allowed in YARDY
The following items are no longer accepted in your YARDY cart. While they may work in home compost piles, they are known to cause challenges at the composting facility in their undegrated form:
- Paper towels
- Paper plates and coffee cups, including those with a wax coating
- Paper napkins
- Dryer lint
- Newspaper
- Animal bedding, such as cat litter or hamster bedding
Collecting Scraps
There are several easy ways to collect your kitchen compostables and take advantage of this service.
- Keep a paper bag by your sink. When full, put the entire bag into YARDY
- Keep a container in the freezer and empty into YARDY when full
- Purchase a countertop compost bin from your local retail store to gather your kitchen scraps
Maintenance
Placing organics in your YARDY cart may increase the amount of decomposing material that sticks to the sides of your cart. To solve this issue you may want to place kitchen scraps on a bed of leaves or grass and rinse your YARDY cart with increased frequency.
Questions?
Our phones are answered 24/7.
Call (319) 286-5897
Office Hours:
7:30-3:30 Mon-Fri
Address
500 15th Ave SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-5837
