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How do I prevent pests, odors, and messes?

Inside Your Home:

• Use a paper towel or paper bag to line your kitchen pail.
• Sprinkle baking soda in your kitchen pail to reduce odors.
• Empty your kitchen pail into your green bin regularly and just before collection day.
• Wash your kitchen pail regularly. It is dishwasher friendly.
• Wrap smellier items and store in your refrigerator or freezer until collection day.

Outside Your Home:

• Put some yard trimmings in your green bin before and after adding your scraps.
• Place the green bin out for collection every week, even if not full.
• Rinse your green bin as needed and sprinkle baking soda in the bottom of the bin.
• Call LASAN's 24-hour Customer Care Center at 800-773-2489 for repair or replacement of broken bins.

Why can't I put compostable plastics in the green bin?

Although marketed as "compostable" or "biodegradable", these items do not actually break down in the amount of time the commercial facilities compost the material. Although these bags are "certified" under various certifications such as ASTMD6400 or BPI, the testing conditions for this certification do not actually match what many real commercial composting facilities operate at. This means the products don't fully decompose with the other organics in the compost. This causes issues in the quality of compost when it is sold to agricultural producers. As such, we are advising residents to NOT place "compostable" utensils, bags, or service ware in the green bin with their organics. Although these items have good intentions they should be placed in the trash at this time as they will also cause issues with the recycling of conventional plastics in the blue bin.

What happens to the green bin contents?

The contents of the green bin will be composted in a commercial facility, and that compost will be used by farmers to grow organic products. That's why it's so important to keep trash, pet waste, household hazardous waste, and other contaminants out of the green bin.