Compost Pilot
New drop-off locations to help you start composting!
Green Beverly is introducing a new compost pilot at:
🚸 Hannah Elementary School
🚸 Glen Urquhart School
When you sign up to compost with Green Beverly, you’ll also gain access to the compost bins that the City of Beverly has set up for residents at:
📍Bessie Baker Park
📍behind Beverly City Hall
Participating is easy! Just follow these steps:
1) Learn the rules - What can I compost, and how? Here is the full guide.
2) Complete the Green Beverly form.
3) Receive the combination code in your email within a week after we review your form.
4) Get composting! To use the stations at Glen Urquhart or Hannah Elementary Schools, unlock the combination lock on the bin with your code, drop up to two bags of kitchen scraps each week, lock the bin, and scramble the code.
Why Compost?
There are so many benefits to composting from reducing the size of our landfills and combatting climate change to creating nutrient rich soil used in numerous ways.
See more here:
US EPA information on Composting
Composting Benefits from the Composting Council
Want Your Compost picked up instead?
Did you know you can also have curbside composting? If you compost with Black Earth, not only are you reducing your carbon footprint, but you also can see where your food scraps go firsthand by finding local farms that use the nutrient enriched soil. You can also start your own raised bed garden and use it yourself!
Here are some additional resources to get you started on composting!
Composting for Kids | What is Composting? | Fact Files for Kids | Twinkl USA (video)
Composting for Kids (slides) from the West Virginia Conservation Agency
Create a compost: Make your own composting bin at home from National Geographics Kids

