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The City of Richmond Environmental and Health Initiatives is hosting a Compost Giveaway free to all residents, in conjunction with Contra Costa Master Gardner’s Great Tomato Sale.

The Great Tomato Sale provides high quality, affordable tomato and vegetable plants to the community. All plants are $3, and staff will be on hand to answer your questions free of charge. Visit http://ccmg.ucanr.edu/ for more information on the tomato sale.

The City hopes to donate compost to support the event and healthy food initiatives here in the City of Richmond.

Compost Giveaway Rules:
Richmond residents only, no businesses.

Up to two cubic feet (approx. three 5-gal buckets) of compost per resident, while supplies last.

Please bring your own container(s). Compost is not bagged.

The compost for the event is donated to the community by Republic Services. When we recycle and compost food scraps it is better for the environment; and recyclables and compost are processed in Richmond, which creates local jobs. Richmond is one of the only cities in the Bay Area that has a closed loop composting program whereby the food scraps are composted within the City – actually on top of the old, capped landfill. By returning compost to our residents, Republic is assisting in creating a closed loop system.

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