 Yard Waste Compost Facilities
Yard waste compost lots are a great place to recover grass clippings, leaves and brush from your landscape. Material brought to these facilities is properly handled, cured and turned into a usable commodity. Over a period of eight months, grass and leaves are combined, repeatedly turned and converted into a black, crumbly material known as compost. Compost is great for lawns and gardens! No chemicals are added in this process.
Proving successful during a trial period in 2006, compost is being brought back to the District office for processing. Material brought to the office is screened to aide in the removal of debris. While it is impossible to remove all of the debris, the screening process creates a much cleaner product! Compost can be purchased for $5.00 a cubic yard at the District office on Friday mornings from 8:00 to noon. An operator is on-site at this time to load vehicles.
All brush such as tree limbs and shrubs are chipped into usable wood mulch. This material is readily available and free for the taking. All material is natural, no coloring added and one inch in size or under. No stumps or land clearing materials are permitted. Wood mulch can be picked up at any of the compost lots listed below.
 All yard waste facilities are open from mid-April through mid-November
- LaGrange – CR 75 N., east side of LaGrange Co. Fairgrounds
Lot is open daylight hours Monday through Friday and daylight hours on Saturday
- Ligonier – Gerber St., north of railroad tracks, west side.
Lot is open 8:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and no Saturdays
- DeKalb County – 2.5 miles NW of Auburn on CR 36A, just North of DeKalb County Farm. Lot is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Steuben County – CR 175 N., NW of Angola, adjacent to Steuben County 4H Fairgrounds. Lot is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m.–
7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
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