Spring Compost Bin & Rain Barrel *Pre-Order Sale*

2023 Spring Compost Bin & Rain Barrel Sale

Bin Pick Up Date: Saturday May 20th 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

UCRRA Main Office 999 Flatbush Road Kingston NY

UCRRA has partnered with Brand Builders LLC. to offer our Spring 2023 Compost Bin and Rain Barrel Sale. The sale features various options (tumblers, vermicompost bins, enclosed bins, Green Cone, and more). This program is a pre-order sale; place your order through the online store and pick up your order ONE DAY ONLY at our special event – Saturday May 20th from 9am-1pm at our Main Office in Kingston. We’re celebrating Compost Awareness Week! Let us help you start composting with confidence!

Special offer for Ulster County residents: Included with every bin purchase is our free gift to you – a 2 gallon kitchen collection caddy to help make home composting clean and easy!  Please note: this offer is only valid to residents of Ulster County only, while supplies last. Non-residents have the option to purchase a caddy through the online store or residents may upgrade to add an additional bucket (or a larger bucket) through the store.

Disclaimer: UCRRA does not make any warranty or representation, expressed or implied, regarding the compost bins or other equipment offered for sale by BrandBuilders, LLC. Purchasers must direct any questions, claims or disputes regarding their purchase to BrandBuilders LLC.

Pick-up instructions: Be sure to make room in your vehicle before picking up your order. Our online store has a helpful video that demonstrates how to load your vehicle. Pickup your preorder **ONE DAY ONLY** – Saturday May 20th 2023 from 9:00AM to 1:00 PM at the UCRRA Main Office. Enter through the Electronics Recycling lane, and follow cones to the designated car-loading zone (parking spaces) alongside the Main Office. This is a drive-through event. Participants can stay in their vehicle through the entire pick up process, and our staff will check you in and help load your vehicle with your order.

Accessibility/COVID Safety: This is an outdoor event with curbside service. We encourage all visitors to please wear a mask and practice social distancing as we will be interacting with hundreds of people on this day. We strive to offer equal program opportunities. Educational resources in Spanish are available by request.

We’re Celebrating Compost Awareness Week!

About ICAW: International Compost Awareness Week  is the largest and most comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry. It’s celebrated nationwide, internationally, and officially across New York Stare each year during the first full week of May. The goal of ICAW is for communities everywhere to raise public awareness about the many benefits of composting and how to make and use compost to regenerate soils. Visit the New York Compost Awareness Week page for more information about local programs, events, and initiatives.

2023 Theme: For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost! Each year, a new theme for ICAW is chosen. The 2023 theme was chosen based on a serious world-wide issue that every nation, unfortunately, experiences: hunger. As part of the ICAW committee’s global discussion with our international partners around the world, we spoke the same language, and all wanted to promote a unified theme – aligning a topic important to each country while emphasizing our work with compost. The chosen 2023 theme best reflects the goal of focusing on how compost can have a role in helping feed the world, by making our soil healthier which produces healthier food. How does compost help? By recycling organics into compost and using it on our farmlands we create healthy soils that produce healthier food and higher yields. It also reduces the need for fertilizer and pesticides, improves water quality and conserves water, as well as stores carbon in soil – helping to reduce climate change. Compost not only helps the environment but also helps to decrease food shortages experienced around the world. For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost!

This year’s winner of the ICAW 2023 Poster Contest is Jun Qi Tan, an illustrator and storyteller from Singapore.