Fairmount Park Organic Recycling Center
| Address | 3850 W Ford Rd, Philadelphia, PA, United States | ||||||||||||
| Phone | +1 215-685-0108 | ||||||||||||
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| Website | phila.gov | ||||||||||||
| Categories | Recycling Center | ||||||||||||
| Rating | 5 5 reviews | ||||||||||||
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Fairmount Park Organic Recycling Center reviews
5 I get all my compost that I use for my gardens, also get my wood chips! All free! I just go and get a trash can at a time. It works great! They just added some new barricades for the piles of wood chips mulch and company and the compost is rich!
Don’t drive your truck in to get the compost! Only for cars. Each resident can go 3 times a week. If you want to fill a truck up you go around back and they will fill it up for you! It’s very very cheap.
When you get there you need to stop and sign in or get weighed, if you taking more than a trash can of material. They usually leave the paper to sign outside and I can be in and out in 2-3 minutes, I’m back home in ten. I love it, it’s one of my favorite parts of living in manayunk
Free mulch, compost, wood chips and you chop firewood. Drop off brush, old shrubs, trees/ logs. Clean. Well organized. Friendly staff.
Stopped by for the first time today, great experience. The compost here is amazing, I'm super excited to add it to my plants. The guy working the weighing station/at the sign in place was nice and answered our silly questions about how to do it. We just backed our car up and loaded up some bins (equal to 30 gallons) of compost. They have nice looking mulch as well. All free for residents up to 30 gallons, such a great amenity for residents. Someone did back their pick up truck right up to a pile, and the guy working asked him not to because people take advantage of the free materials.
I love the this place! I have a huuuge yard and even with the limits I only have to come here 3 to 4 times a year to save hundreds on mulch and compost.
And last but certainly not least, the people who work here are the nicest.
The signage is pretty confusing, but thankfully everyone is super nice and helpful. Shoutout to woman who runs weigh-in being so sweet, another parks dept employee for asking about what i was gonna plant, and another for frontloading dirt into the truck bed w artistic precision.
Super glad this program exists and hopefully soon can be accessible even if you don't have a car/truck/luck out and have your truck-owning parents around in the spring to help you out:)