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

2024 Spring Compost Bin & Rain Barrel Sale

Celebrating Compost Awareness Week

Bin Distribution Day: Saturday May 18th

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 2024 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 between now and Friday May 17th (pre-order deadline). Pick up your order ONE DAY ONLY at our special event, Saturday, May 18th from 9am-1pm, at our Main Office in Kingston. We’re celebrating Compost Awareness Week! Let us help you start composting with confidence!

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 18th 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. Please wait patiently for an Agency representative to check you in and confirm your order details.

Accessibility: This is an outdoor event with curbside service in our parking lot.  Participants may stay in their vehicle through the entire pick up process if they’d prefer, and our staff will check you in and help load your vehicle with your order items. 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 State 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

2024 Theme: COMPOST… Nature’s Climate Champion! Each year, a new theme for ICAW is chosen. The 2024 theme was chosen collaboratively with the International Compost Alliance (ICA), incorporating the collective focus on one of the initiatives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which is “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.”

The 2024 theme best reflects the UN goal by highlighting the role compost plays in fighting climate change. Those roles include:

• Decreasing methane: Methane, a greenhouse gas twenty-five times as powerful as carbon dioxide, can be significantly reduced through the recycling of organics instead of their being landfilled.
• Helping with climate change mitigation: Compost offers a significant answer to climate change mitigation. Compost’s return to the soil serves as a “carbon bank,” helping to store carbon thereby removing it from the atmosphere.
• Reducing fertilizer inputs, reducing the pollution created to manufacture those inputs.
• Increasing resilience: Compost helps to increase resilience to the effects of climate change such as drought and extreme weather.

This year’s winner of the ICAW 2024 Poster Contest  is Ny Rindra Arison Malalaniaina. Ny Rindra lives in Antananarivo, Madagascar and is a student in chemical and industrial process engineering.