Food Composting Open To Community In Lakewood

LAKEWOOD, OH — Northeast Ohio's only community-supported composting program is coming to Lakewood. For $5 a month, residents can drop off their food scraps in an environmentally-friendly way and get discounted access to high-quality soil.

Rust Belt Riders, Keep Lakewood Beautiful and the city of Lakewood are working together on the community-supported composting program. Residents who join the program will have constant access to the composting bin, located in Lakewood Park, and will receive discounts on soil.

Residents are asked not to put liquids into the composting bin. All other foods — including dairy, meat, coffee grounds, eggshells, citrus — are acceptable for composting. Even certain manufactured products may be composting friendly and can be placed in the bin.

Information on joining the program, and how the composting program works, can be found on the Rust Belt Riders website.

The goal of composting programs is to reduce the amount of food that ends up in landfills. Nearly 40 percent of all food produced will end up in a landfill, according to Rust Belt Riders. Creating an alternative disposal program for food can help fight climate change and protect Lake Erie from dangerous run-off.