Left over from previous Sustainable Suffield initiatives, the bins and composters are new.
Whether you want to join Suffield’s growing food scrap collection movement or start composting in your backyard for a planned summer garden, Sustainable Suffield can help.
We have three-gallon, ventilated food scrap collection bins for countertops and 80-gallon backyard composters for FREE to Suffield residents.
Get the bins from Kris Lambert, assistant to First Selectman Colin Moll, on the second floor of the Town Hall. She also has bundles of compostable 3 gallon BioBags for free. You can also dump food scraps loosely into the dumpster or collect them in paper grocery bags for deposit in the dumpster.
Pick up a new backyard composter at the landfill. No permit is required. The composter measures 33” tall by 33” wide at its largest diameter and comes in four pieces for easy assembly. It has a screw-locking lid, a sliding door at the bottom to retrieve compost and plastic hold-down pegs. It weighs 16 lbs.
While you may deposit fish, meat, oil and dairy products in the countertop bin for disposal in the town dumpster, don’t put those items in the backyard composter. They can attract animals. Food scraps from the town dumpster are mixed with cow manure at anaerobic digesters on area farms to create energy, liquid fertilizer and animal bedding.
Bin and composter quantities are limited, so if you’re interested, don’t delay.