Community Compost Giveaway: Spring 2008
RESULTS

The City of Lawrence Spring Compost Giveaway was held Thursday through Saturday, March 20^th - March 22^nd. The compost given away was a mix of last year’s May/June and July/August composted yard trimmings.

A total of 1,700 vehicles entered our facility over the three-day period (Table 1). The Compost Giveaway started with approximately 4,293 cubic yards of compost from May-August yard trimmings that was screened, tested, and ready for distribution. At the end of the day on Saturday, there was approximately 28 cubic yards of the compost left. This translates to about 2,772 tons of compost distributed to the community over the three-day period.

Table 1: Number of new and repeat customers each day and the total over the three-day period.

	Thursday, Mar. 20th	Friday, Mar. 21st	Saturday, Mar. 22nd	Total (all three days)
New Customers	273	394	457	1124
Repeat Customers	165	186	225	576
Total (each day)	438	580	682	1700

Well organized traffic queuing ensured safe access, egress, and loading for a variety of vehicle types. There were no accidents at this giveaway.

A smaller pile of compost on the west side of the pad was created to accommodate self-loaders.

The majority of vehicles through our facility were trucks, which were loaded with either of two front end loaders.