Since the food waste program began last March, Seattle residents have increased recycling food scraps by a whopping 47%. According to Seattle Public Utilities, this puts Seattle’s recycling food waste at “approximately 10 times the national average”!
To reward us for our fine efforts, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), in partnership with Cedar Grove Composting, has launched “Compost Days”. Starting today, though May 30, Seattle residents can get two free bags of Cedar Grove compost, and free Green Kitchen Kits.
Coupons for the compost and kitchen kits were on SPU’s CurbWaste and Conserve Newsletter that was distributed in late March. But, if you were like me, and you accidentally recycled said newsletter, the coupons will be available again in the Pacific Northwest Magazine in the Sunday Seattle Times later this month and all through May. You can also click here and print off the coupon.
The free bags of compost are available at selected locations and the kitchen kits can be picked up at SPU Neighborhood Service Centers. I’ve listed a few closest to Wallingford, but you can find more locations by clicking here.
Update: A reader commented that SPU will not accept Xeroxed compost coupons from the online link, but only those from the newsletter and from the Seattle Times. When I phoned SPU for comment, I was also informed that they’ve already run out of the kitchen kits! On their first day!
I’ll look into the compost/coupon situation and will follow up here on the post.
Ballard
5604 22nd Ave NW, 98107-4027
M-F from 9am to 5pm and Sat 10am to 2pm
Lake City
12525 28th Ave NE (second floor), 98125-4319
M-F from 9am to 5pm
University
4534 University Way NE, 98105-4511
M-F 10am to 6pm and Sat 10am to 2pm
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The City will not accept coupons printed from the internet or Xeroxed. They have to be original coupons from the Curb Waste and Conserve newsletter or from the Seattle times. You will be turned away if you don’t have an original coupon.
Thanks for the tip. It makes me wonder, though, why they allowed Cedar Grove to post the coupon online.
I’ll place this information in the original post, too, but I just phoned SPU and it seems they’ve already run out of the kitchen kits.
I went to the Ballard location at 11am-ish today and they’d already run out of kitchen kits. They only got 100 and the second 1/2 of the order won’t come in until 4/20.
It’s nice to know so many people want them, I just wish the city had planned on it!
SPU announced that they exhausted all of their kitchen kit supplies and will not be receiving anymore. You can still get two free bags of compost.
Kitchen kits? Really folks? Ours is a large and old tupperware we keep under the sink.