Free Compost!!!!

 

Grab your shovels and containers they are giving away free compost in Scarborough! 

 

Ward 35 - Scarborough Southwest Compost Day

Sunday May 15th 

Bring your own shovel and container to take free compost

from these locations;

 

9am – 11am at Corvette Junior Public School

11am – 1pm at W.A. Porter School

1pm – 3pm at Prairie Drive Park

 

After researching into this, I learned that the City of Toronto has a number of free compost depots and they will be open from April to October 2011. Residents can get up to one cubic metre of leaf compost (approximately one car trunkful) at the sites listed below. Compost is available on a weekly basis while supplies last.

Here is a list of places open in Toronto:

 

Etobicoke

Disco Transfer Station
120 Disco Road at Carlingview Drive

Open Saturdays 7am-noon

North York

Ingram Transfer Station
50 Ingram Drive
(east of Keele Street between Lawrence Avenue West and Eglinton Avenue West)

Open Saturdays 7am-noon

 

Victoria Park Transfer Station 

3350 Victoria Park Avenue 

(between Finch Ave. and McNicoll Avenue)

Open Saturdays 7am-noon

 

Scarborough

Scarborough Transfer Station
1 Transfer Place
(Markham Road, north of Sheppard Avenue East)

Open Saturdays 7am-noon

Toronto

Commissioners Transfer Station 

400 Commissioner Street 

(south of Lake Shore Boulevard East, between Don Roadway & Carlaw Avenue Enter off Bouchette Street)

Open Saturdays 7am-noon

If you would like to learn so more information about the compost that is offered and how you can use it in your garden CLICK HERE

I think this is great! The money that you save on compost you can use towards making your garden that much more beautiful ! 

Happy Savings! 

Miss Savings Girl!