Community powered composting
Turning Long Beach food waste into collective gold.
What’s in our community compost piles?

- Carbon/Brown
(we primarily use mulch) - Nitrogen/Green
(your food scraps) -
Air/Oxygen
(volunteers turn piles) -
Water
(courtesy of our trusty garden hose)
- Bacteria
(most numerous and responsible for most of the decomposition and heat generation in compost) -
Fungi
(numerous during both mesophilic and thermophilic phases of composting) -
Actinomycetes
(most commonly seen toward the end of the composting process)