Compost

Composting is convenient, beneficial and inexpensive way to handle your organic waste and help the environment.

Why should I compost?

Composting is a convenient, beneficial and inexpensive way to handle your organic waste and help the environment.

Composting:

  • reduces the volume of trash requiring disposal.

  • Saves money for you and our community through

  • reduced waste disposal costs.

  • Enriches the soil.

Using compost for your lawn and garden adds essential nutrients, improves soil structure, which allows better root growth, and increases moisture and nutrient retention in the soil. Plants love compost! Learn why you should love compost too here.

Curbside Pickup with Black Earth Compost

Participate in composting—return food scraps and other organic material to the soil to be reused, with the convenience of weekly curbside pickup.

With this program, you can compost meat, bones, dairy products, food-soiled paper products (like pizza boxes), pasta, corks (not plastic), and cookies, besides all the more expected items like fruits and veggies, egg shells, tea and coffee grounds. Plus, you receive a voucher for a bag of finished compost in the spring. Learn more here.

Curbside Free Leaf and Brush Pickup – Town of Sharon

Leaves and brush are picked up curbside the last week of October, throughout November, the first week of December, and the last weeks of both April and May.

Backyard Composting – Do It Yourself!

Compost leaves, lawn clippings, fruit and veggie scraps, soiled paper, and cardboard in your backyard. Worm bins and composting bins are just two options. The Town of Sharon sometimes has compost bins for sale at subsidized cost – contact the DPW for details. Learn about backyard composting and different types of bins from MassDEP.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection created this brochure to get you started. Here is a PowerPoint presentation that was part of a SSC meeting program in 2018.

Farnham Road – Sharon’s Public Composting Area

Drop off you leaves, brush, and grass at Sharon’s Farnham Road compost site, which is open April – November.