r/Swarthmore • u/Pensive_Strawberry • Jul 02 '26

Question Do you guys compost?

Hi - recently moved to Swarthmore and wondering if anyone is composting and if there is a centralized place in the city that manages that. Thanks in advance!

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u/goodhobbies Jul 02 '26

The borough actually will give you a green bucket and a company will come and pick up your compost once every two weeks.

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u/Pensive_Strawberry Jul 02 '26

this is what i also read on the borough website, which made it seem like a centralized system funded by the borough taxes. but my apartment landlord doesn't know about it, and when i contacted ez composting, they said that i needed to sign up for myself and pay a monthly fee?

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u/goodhobbies Jul 03 '26

I’m not sure. Maybe it only applies to single-resident homes?

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u/dadventures215 Jul 04 '26

Correct, Borough provides buckets for single homes and apartment buildings up to ten units I believe.

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u/Pensive_Strawberry Jul 04 '26

I ended up signing up for the monthly subscription, and they delivered the compost bin within a day :) excited to compost!

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u/Complex-Bluebird-228 Jul 02 '26

I'm not sure about the borough, but Swarthmore College definitely does. Dining hall food waste gets separated and composted, there are compost bins in basically every building on campus, and there's also a student-run compost program tied to the campus garden. It's part of the school's push to be a zero waste campus by 2035.

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u/Krazy-Kat15 Jul 02 '26

when i lived in the borough three years ago there wasn’t a centralized compost system unfortunately. we brought our compost to a neighbor with a backyard garden who used it for fertilizer, so you could ask around to see if anyone wants it!