Timber Creek Recycling LLC is planning on expanding on expanding their recycling business into commercial composting and partner with Republic Services to offer Meridian, ID residents curbside composting within the next two years.
Meridian City Council will hold a public hearing on July 17 for an application to expand Timber Creek Recycling into a commercial compost facility. If it is approved, Republic Services would be able to start the program in Spring 2020. Timber Creek Recycling gets wood and food waste from Republic Services and other companies to use as feed and bedding for beef cattle. They also use yard waste as compost, which becomes fertilizer in the fields where corn, wheat, alfalfa, oats and other crops is grown.
Timber Creek Recycling plans on giving back a good amount of the compost to the city, and then sell the rest. This is a similar structure to Boise’s composting program, which gives compost to residents and the city of Boise, and then sells the rest. Over the last year, the program has given 2,000 yards of compost to residents, and plans to use between 5,000 and 8,000 yards on parks this year, according to Catherine Chertudi, solid waste programs manager for the city of Boise.
Timber Creek Recycling is on a 156.5-acre farm, of which about 15 to 20 acres of that will be used for composting.
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