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Composting at HTLakeview!
When the COVID-19 pandemic began and we closed the building at HTLakeview and ceased all in-person events we paused the composting service for a variety of reasons. Even though it isn’t yet safe for us to gather together in large groups in our buildings, things are opening up in the state of Illinois, people are getting around the city for medical appointments and errands, and HTLC staff are more frequently working in the building, so we have now resumed our composting service with biweekly instead of weekly pickup.
In the fall of 2018 Holy Trinity contracted with Collective Resource Compost to provide compost collection service at HTLakeview. With this, we began composting food scraps from all church events as well as the compostable cups, plates, utensils, and more that we had begun using.
We also began to slowly explore inviting Holy Trinity members to bring compost from their homes, knowing that many in our urban environment aren’t able to compost at their homes (did you know that with a commercial composting service like Collective Resource you can compost meat, bones, pizza boxes, and other things you can’t compost at your home?) and don’t have composting services provided by their apartment or condo buildings.
If you’ve not been composting during the pandemic, now is the time to resume. And if you haven’t saved food scraps and the like for composting before because you didn’t have any place to compost them, now you do!
Bring your food scraps and other compostables to the HTLakeview garden and put them in the compost bin just outside of the building entrance in the garden.
If your compostables are bagged, please be sure they are in a compostable bag. View a list of compostables here or in the graphic below. Be sure you have your own hand sanitizer to clean your hands after touching the bin as the building will not likely be accessible unless you make arrangements to come when someone is in the office.
If you choose to bring compostables to HTLC it would be helpful if you would let our administrator, Beau Surratt (office@htchicago.org or 773-248-1233), know so that he can keep track of how many are using this service.
