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It takes only two months to take food waste like an apple core, corn husks or salad and convert it to nutrient-rich to help grow more Your Guide 1 2 3 apples. Or corn. Or lettuce. ™ to Blue Bag Organics ™ And Blue Bag™ Organics Curbside Composting Blue Bag Organics Curbside Composting is an makes food waste recycling easy for you and your amazingly easy and affordable way to recycle household. Curbside Composting kitchen scraps, discarded leftovers, spoiled produce and pizza boxes. This organics waste The secret to our Blue Bag Organics Curbside will be converted into nutrient-rich compost to Composting system is the special Blue Bag fortify lawns, flower beds, and backyard and Organics liner. It’s made from corn syrup and community gardens. polymers. These renewable ingredients make Blue Bag Organics bags durable. They can withstand Randy’s Environmental Services will pick up your sunlight, rain and snow. And they can stretch to Blue Bag Organics each week using the same resist most tears and punctures. truck we use to take away your regular household trash. There’s no need for a separate food waste But when they are buried at an industrial pickup. That means one less truck will be traveling composting facility, Blue Bag Organics bags and on your street. their contents disintegrate in less than 60 days, turning into nutrient-rich Blue Bag Premium To become a Blue Bag Organics household, contact Compost that is sold at your local garden center. Randy’s Environmental Services at 763-972-3335. We will provide everything you need to begin food waste recycling at home, including: Hungry for more information? Visit bluebagorganics.com. • A 32-gallon Blue Bag Organics can and lid • Sixty 32-gallon Blue Bag Organics compostable can liners per year • A ventilated kitchen compost bucket • A coupon for a complimentary bag of Blue Bag Printed on recycled . Premium Compost Discard food waste and food-soiled paper from meals, your refrigerator and the GGoodood SStufftuff 1 pantry into a kitchen compost bucket, for Blue Bag ™ Organics Recycling separate from your other household trash. Food waste and food-soiled paper Use a kitchen scraps recycling setup that is most are called organic waste. It includes: convenient for you and your household. You may already have a ventilated kitchen • Spoiled leftovers • Dairy products compost bucket for your kitchen scraps. • Meat and meat bones • Paper cups and Some households prefer to line the compost • Poultry and poultry plates bucket with newspaper, a paper bag or an empty bones • Paper towels and paperboard ice cream container. These paper items are compostable right along with the • Fish and fish bones napkins kitchen scraps. • Vegetable scraps • Waxed paper and parchment paper Or you may prefer to line your compost bucket • Fruit scraps with a 3-gallon compostable bag certified by the • Egg and nut shells • Wax-coated Biodegradable Products Institute. A list of paperboard BPI-certified bags can be found at bpiworld.org. • Fruit stones packaging and • Coffee grounds containers Please don’t use shopping bags or other kinds of plastic bags. They will not compost. and filters • Refrigerated foods • Tea leaves and You may use any sturdy washable container as • Frozen foods tea bags (staples a kitchen compost bucket. A plastic ice cream removed) • Takeout and to-go bucket or plastic gallon milk jug with the top cut off containers • Butter and margarine works well, along with newspaper or a paper bag wrappers • Pizza boxes placed in the bottom to absorb liquids.

Empty your kitchen compost bucket into the Blue Bag™ Organics composting Keep out 2 system — a covered blue can that’s lined of Blue Bag ™ Organics Recycling with a Blue Bag Organics BPI-certified bag. These items should not go into your kitchen compost Unlike most plastic trash bags, the Blue Bag bucket or Blue Bag Organics liner. They do not compost. Organics liner is specially made to be compostable. • Twist ties • Personal sanitary products All your household’s organics, including flattened • Aluminum foil • Diapers or wipes and folded pizza boxes, go into that special Blue Bag Organics liner. Cereal boxes can still go into • Foil-lined cartons, • Pet droppings or kitty litter containers or packaging your . • Glass or metal • Cooking oils, fats or grease • Clothes • Staples For trash day, hand tie the Blue Bag •  • Cigarette butts Organics liner and place it inside your 3 regular garbage cart for curbside pickup. • Styrofoam • Rocks or bricks We’ll separate all Blue Bag Organics Yard waste (grass clippings, flowers, leaves, brush and branches) and recyclable paper are picked up separately from other trash at our facility. And off they’ll go from Blue Bag Organics. to a composting company.

To order your trash service with About Two months later, recycled Blue Bag Organics, food waste from households like please call Randy’s yours will be converted to compost Environmental Services and sold at a local garden center. at 763-972-3335.