Nearly 30% of what ends up in California landfills is organic material, including food scraps and yard trimmings. When this material decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane—a potent greenhouse gas that’s 84 times stronger than carbon dioxide.

Fortunately, Monterey County residents have a better option. By placing food scraps and yard trimmings in your green curbside cart, you’re helping divert valuable resources from the landfill. These materials are delivered to us, where they’re turned into nutrient-rich compost.

Hundreds of self-haulers also bring yard trimmings through ReGen Monterey’s scales each day to be processed into mulch and compost. Our onsite contractor, Keith Day Company, uses windrow composting methods to produce over 130,000 tons of quality compost from the community’s food scraps, forestry debris and yard trimmings each year.

You’ll be proud to know that 100% of our compost is used on local farms, returning nutrients to the soil and supporting a local, circular economy.