Come prepared with shovels, buckets, tarps and anything else you need to transport compost! Free compost events will supply bulk compost (unbagged) to Lane County households, up to 1 cubic yard per household, while supplies last.

Learn more at the Free Community Compost Program page at www.lanecountyor.gov/compost

About the Program

Lane County Waste Management has been awarded a USDA grant to support the distribution of free food-waste compost to the community. The new Community Compost program will address a missing element in the current Lane County food waste reduction plan: ensuring that an increasing supply of commercially produced food-waste compost is accessible to more county residents, particularly in historically underserved communities.

The program aims to serve all Lane County residents and agricultural producers, with a focus on disadvantaged communities. It will provide up to 5,000 tons of free compost to Lane County residents and agricultural producers and host four Free Compost Day events each year (8 events total).

This work is supported by the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production’s Composting and Food Waste Reduction Cooperative Agreements, project award no. 2024-70510-41981, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.