{"id":573766,"date":"2026-03-31T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573766\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:01:12","slug":"calgary-compost-giveaway-program-returns-for-eighth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573766\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Compost Giveaway Program Returns for Eighth Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/untitled-design-2026-03-31t140133131.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The city of Calgary is once again offering free compost to citizens to help improve garden growth. This will be the eighth year the city has done it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Gonzalez, Waste Diversion Specialist for the city, tells CJWE that people could start booking online to pick up compost as early as Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/03\/calgary-compost-giveaway-program-clip-1.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/03\/calgary-compost-giveaway-program-clip-1.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez also mentioned that compost will be available for pick-up from April 13 to May 30 at the Shepard landfill in the south and the Spyhill landfill in the north. Each household is limited to 100 litres of compost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/03\/calgary-compost-giveaway-program-clip-2.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/03\/calgary-compost-giveaway-program-clip-2.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the program and to book your pick-up online, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgary.ca\/waste\/residential\/green-cart-compost-giveaway.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Calgary is once again offering free compost to citizens to help improve garden growth. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[901,49,2798,48,4398,32918,5593],"class_list":{"0":"post-573766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-calgary","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-country-music","13":"tag-indigenous","14":"tag-south"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}