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Mother Compost
Wynnewood PA (610) 509-9700
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Mother Compost is a pickup service located on the Main Line in Pennsylvania that collects residential, commercial, and event compost materials. They also offer educational services through speaking engagements, consultations, and their online Compost Coach program.
Their missions is to help educate and empower the community to make sustainable choices. By providing easy access to composting and facilitating educational programming, they hope to encourage more people to think more about wasting less.
Accepted Items
The following items can be used for composting:
Food
- Coffee grounds/filters
- Cooked/fried food
- Dairy
- Egg shells
- Freezer-burned foods
- Fruits + vegetables
- Grains
- Seeds
- Nuts + nut shells
- Processed food
- Powdered milk
- Pizza + greasy pizza boxes
- Rotten + moldy food
- Tea
- loose or natural bag without staple
Organic Materials
Only compost these if the fit in your bin:
- BPI-Certified compostable ware
- Hair clippings
- Nail clippings
- Pencil shavings
- Toothpicks
- Wool + dryer lint
- Fireplace ashes
- Garden + yard trimmings
- Houseplant trimmings
- Sawdust
- Feathers
Not Accepted
Food
- Meat + poultry
- Seafood
- Shellfish
- Gum
Other
- Inorganic materials
- Synthetic materials
- plastic, acrylic, polyester, or rubber
- Rubber bands
- Twist ties
- Animal or human waste chemicals + toxics
- Cigarette butts
- Coal
- Diapers
- Diseased plants
- Herbicides + pesticides
- Kitty litter
- Medicine + medical waste
- Treated woods
- Used tissues (due to COVID)
- Electronic waste
*They do not collect large amounts of yard waste at this time, but they take season items (i.e. pumpkins, cornstalks, pine boughs) as needed.
Guidelines
Recycle + Reuse
Last updated March 2020