- Maricopa County Cooperative Extension Home Horticulture:
Environmentally Responsible
Gardening & Landscaping in the Low Desert
| City of Phoenix Buckeye Landfill (602) 262-6598 Office | You can purchase old trash containers with holes cut into them to make composters for $5.00. They are open on Saturday unitl 4:00 p.m. Take I-10 to 19th Avenue, South on 19th Avenue to Lower Buckeye Road, West on Lower Buckeye Road to 27th Avenue, then South to the Landfill. You do not have to be a resident of Phoenix to buy containers. |
| Town of Gilbert Sanitation Department (602) 503-6437 | The town offers free backyard composters to residents, and will even deliver. These are recycled trash containers that have the bottoms and wheels removed, and holes drilled in the sides and top. |
| City of Tempe (602) 350-8265 | Free to residents. Composters have lids, bottoms have giant holes. Tempe will deliver. |
| City of Mesa (602) 644-2222 | Available to residents for $5.00. Should you ever return the composter, they will credit your account. |
| City of Chandler (602) 786-2863 | Free to residents. Chandler will deliver. |
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Sources for Composters
Author: Cathy Rymer, Instructional Specialist, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Maricopa County
Reviewed by: Lucy K. Bradley, Extension Agent Urban Horticulture, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Maricopa County
© 1997 The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension, in Maricopa County
Comments to Cathy Rymer,crymer@ag.arizona.edu 4341 E. Broadway Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85040
(602) 470-8086 ext. 308
http://ag.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/index/compost.htm 