East Hampton Compost
A food scrap drop-off collaboration between ReWild Long Island & the Town of East Hampton
Transforming food scraps into soil food
Drop-Off Locations
Over the winter, the unstaffed drop-offs are for composters who are SUPER CAREFUL about depositing clean, contaminant-free scraps. We can’t peel off every produce sticker; you need to do that at home.
COMMON CONTAMINANTS include: produce stickers and other plastics, twist-ties and rubber bands, grains – bread – pasta – rice, meat – poultry – fish and paper products other than brown paper bags or newsprint.
EH Village area
7 days a week, daylight hours, probably thru the winter
TO GET DETAILS and PARTICIPATE or VOLUNTEER, email Gloria and Susan at EastHamptonCompost@ReWildLongIsland.org
Springs Farmers Market
AMBER WAVES AMAGANSETT
SAG HARBOR FARMERS MARKET
These locations hibernating for the winter. See you in the spring!
Montauk community garden
Corner of S Etna Ave & S Edison, Montauk, NY 11954
Saturdays 10am-noon thru January 18 … or longer if we can get more folks to drive a few bins from MTK to the EH Recycling Center each week.
TO GET DETAILS and PARTICIPATE or VOLUNTEER, email Gloria and Christine at EastHamptonCompost@ReWildLongIsland.org
our community says…
Start composting in 3 steps…
Learn which materials we can compost
help reduce food waste in East Hampton
Drop off your scraps at the ReWild EcoTable
Why Compost?
Reduce your carbon footprint
East Hampton’s food waste ends up in distant incinerators along with our trash. Both trucking & incineration produce CO2.
Compost helps trap organic carbon in our soils, preventing its accumulation in our atmosphere.
Recycle your Food scraps into soil food
Compost replenishes nutrients in the soil that went into your fruits & veggies, and it increases the soil’s ability to hold water.
This reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers & pesticides and decreases run-off, improving water quality.
Support local pollinators & PEOPLE
Compost improves root structure and plant growth for better East Hampton potatoes (along with other produce). And who doesn’t love a potato?!
Plus, potatoes are pollinated by native bumble bees (not honey bees).
Reduce Waste and Revitalize Our Soils
East Hampton Compost is a community-based organization that transforms food scraps into soil food. We believe that everyone has a role to play in
Reducing food waste and diverting it from the waste stream
Building healthy soils
Reducing our carbon footprint
East Hampton households throw out $20 million of food each year. It gets trucked to an incinerator or landfill. That’s a lot of wasted food and a lot of wasted resources. Composting diverts food scraps from the waste stream and revitalizes our soils.
We are committed to making food scrap drop-off easy and accessible for everyone in East Hampton. Our first step in that direction was the Summer 2023 Pilot, which provided two drop-off locations and education to the community of East Hampton. In 2024, we’re adding a new drop-off location on a new day of the week.
This project wouldn’t be possible without our incredible partners.
To help reduce food waste in East Hampton, join us in one of these ways…
Join Us!
Drop off your Food scraps
Food waste is a global issue; you can help solve it locally.
The average household tosses more than $1,800 of food each year. Imagine what the 11,000 households in East Hampton can do when we work together.
Volunteer
This community project depends on volunteers. We need you!
We’re looking for volunteers to help with everything from tabling & receiving food scraps to developing educational materials.
Fill out the Survey
Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete the 3-minute survey! Your answers will help refine the program to make participating easier for you -- and will help scale up the next phase so we can recycle even more food scraps.
Our Partners
East Hampton Compost is a ReWild Long Island initiative in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton NY along with a number of fabulous community partners and volunteers…
ReWild Long Island promotes biodiversity and builds resilience throughout our communities by nurturing Long Island's pollinators & people, soils & shores.
The Town Board and the Town of East Hampton is committed to protecting and enhancing the community’s natural resources and safety in the face of climate change by adopting and promoting sustainable practices. Shout out to Councilman Tom Flight and Assistant Supervisor Cate Rogers!
Balsam Farms and Ian Calder-Piedmont, one of our local farmers who knows that compost is black gold for growing great produce. (Note: Santiago, Balsam’s Amagansett farm stand manager is in the picture. We’ll get Ian one of these days.)
Amber Waves is a magical place committed to unite food and community with the mission to provide educational opportunities in agriculture for aspiring growers, thoughtful cooks, and eaters of all ages.
The Compost Sub-Committee of East Hampton's Energy & Sustainability Committee. Sub-Committee head Gloria Frazee is the founder of East Hampton Compost.
The Peconic Bioregion Alliance, initiated by the Long Island Organics Council and the North Fork Environmental Council, partners with local groups to take region-wide regenerative action, including the diversion of Residential food scraps to compost. Huge thanks to Mary Morgan and Mark Haubner!
The inspiring students participating in the ReWild Summer Program to Fight Hunger and Climate Change along with EHHS Club advisors, Aubrey Peterson (Environmental Awareness) and Karen DeFronzo (Garden Club). This picture was taken on planting day at new EHHS/ReWild Pollinator Garden.
Steve Lynch, Superintendent of Highways, and Craig Fick at the East Hampton Recycling Center are strong supporters.
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