Community Composting Program
You collect the food waste — Winton makes the compost
Turn your spoils into COMPOST!!!
Our community composting program allows participating members to collect food waste from their homes for composting at our facility. With conveniently located drop-off locations, our program will allow you to finally separate out your organic waste from your landfilled trash!
Think subscription service, but for composting.
How Does It Work?
Why Participate?
Normally, food waste sent to the landfill goes into anaerobic decomposition (without air) and produces methane, a harmful greenhouse gas. By diverting food waste and compostable items to Winton’s composting facility you are helping to reduce the production of methane gas.
Winton’s state-of-the-art facility instead uses aerobic composting technology to create high quality compost that delivers important microbes, nutrients, and water retention qualities for the health of your soils and plants.
Join our Community Composting Drop-Off Program today for just $60/year!
✔ Simple & Convenient: Reduce waste with ease.
✔ One-Time Starter Kit: Sign up includes one-time purchase of a durable bucket and a full year's supply of compostable bags.
Buy Bags Online
Pickup locations:
Winton MFG, 17400 Winton Rd, Leavenworth
Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce, 940 US HWY 2, Leavenworth
Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce, 137 N Wenatchee Ave suite 101, Wenatchee
Purchase at these Local Stores
Sage Mtn. Natural Foods Market 11685 US Highway 2, Leavenworth
Loves Me Flowers -101 Cottage Ave Ste F, Cashmere
Sign up for yearly plan here ($60/yr) + one time purchase of program supplies (bucket and years’ worth of bags)
What’s Accepted?
If you can eat it, it can go into your Community Composting bucket!
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Meat & poultry
Dairy products
Fats
Fruit
Vegetables
Fish & shellfish
Egg shells
Coffee grounds
Tea bags
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Yard Waste
Plastic, Glass, Metal, Trash, Liquids
Plastic bags
Cartons
Waxed cardboard
Pet or human waste
Black plastic bags
Find Your Community Compost Drop Off Site
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Winton MFG Compost Works, 17400 Winton Rd
The Grunewald Guild 19003 River Rd
The Plain Pantry 1247 Chapel Dr
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City Hall/Library, 700 Highway 2
Leavenworth Public Works, 14th St & US2.
Old Osborn School, 225 Central St
Glacier Parking Lot, 170 US Hwy 2. Regular and disability accessible enclosures
Leavenworth Fish Hatchery, 12790 Fish Hatchery Rd
Sage Natural Foods, 347 Division St
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Alpine Fitness, 10090 Main St, Suite F
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Cashmere Public Works, 200 Railroad Ave
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Sunnyslope Church, 3330 School St
Wenatchee Valley College, 1521 9th St
Grace Lutheran Church, 1408 Washington St
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East Wenatchee City Hall, 271 9th St NE
Celebration Lutheran Church, 801 8th St NE
Cascade Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1550 Sunset Highway
Winton is Wildlife Wise
Living and operating in an area with high levels of wildlife means taking extra steps to ensure that composting remains safe for both our communities and local wildlife.
We follow Bearwise solutions to prevent attracting wildlife
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Our Kodiak Product Carts are certified by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC).
Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) - ID, MT, WY, WA
Bins are double walled and have an automatic locking system.
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When a bear touches the electric fence wire that surrounds the composting pad, electricity instantly travels from the wire through the bear, into the earth to the grounding rod, and then back to the energizer, completing the circuit. The bear gets a shocking lesson and quickly learns that our area is not a good place to get rewarded with food.
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Our composting process uses Gore Covers to trap the smells from the composting process. Minimizing the odors that may attract bears to our composting facility.