Fairmount Park Organic Recycling Center PA 19131

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Harris Schmerling

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

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Dwayne Kemp Bey

Does anyone ever answer the phone here. I came in with roughly 15 bags of leaves was told it weighed over a ton charged $140 for leaves the scale pulling in was roughly 6100lbs the save when leaving was about 5800 why was I charged for over 3k of leaves lol of course no answer when I called for an explanation. This is why there’s ”illegal” dumping by the way. Someone is scamming in that office or made a gross mistake that should be corrected.

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Ed Martin

I must have caught people there on a bad day because my experience was very different from what others have posted. I went there on March 19, 2025 at approximately 1 o'clock. It is only a couple miles from me so I wanted to check it out on my lunch time. The website as well as people posting reviews say that you can get 30 gallons of compost for free. That is not entirely accurate. You can get six 5 gallon buckets meaning that you need to take 6 buckets with you. You cannot fill up a 5 gallon bucket 6 times, and pour that into another container for your 30 gallons. They also said because I went there with a truck, I had to park 150 to 200 feet away from the compost piles and take the buckets individually to the truck. I was not allowed to pull the truck over to where the compost is and load the filled buckets into the bed of the truck. If you're an older or disabled city resident, carrying 30 - 40 pound buckets a few hundred feet might be a challenge. They did offer multiple times to sell me compost and fill up the entire bed of my truck with a loader, which is not what I wanted, if I want to buy compost, I will buy it locally and have it delivered. I was pretty surprised at this situation and did not realize that the city was in the business of selling compost.