The Valparaiso compost site will open for the season April 9 to give Porter County residents the opportunity to drop off yard waste resulting from their spring cleanups
Regular hours for the site, located at 2150 W. Lincolnway, will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Currently, the Valparaiso compost site is open Saturdays only from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. through April 7.
Materials accepted include organic yard waste, leaves, garden clippings, household plants, brush, limbs, logs and firewood. Grass is not accepted, and neither is treated wood or lumber. A limited amount of compost and mulch is currently available for Porter County residents to take. More mulch will be available toward the end of April after a scheduled grinding takes place.
Other materials accepted at the compost site for proper disposal include old or unusable electronics (anything with an electrical cord or powered by batteries), compact fluorescent light bulbs and batteries.
The site is owned by the City of Valparaiso, and the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County helps to maintain it and staff the guard house.
The Boone Grove site, 400 West 550 South , will open for the season on April 23 from noon to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. The site, owned and operated by the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County, is currently closed.
These large scale municipal composting operations allow the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County and various municipalities to manage organic material, composting yard waste and grinding organic wood waste to create large amounts of finished compost and mulch. The resulting compost and mulch are available for public use.
More information about public compost sites in Porter County, visit the District’s website, www.ItMeansTheWorld.org, or call 465-3694.