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Fairmount Park Organic Recycling Center

Tired of spending your time and money schlepping to Home Depot? There’s an alternative. City residents are entitled to 30 gallons of free organic materials every year from Fairmount Park: screened leaf compost, mulch, wood chips, and whatever “other organic materials” means. If you happen to own a chain saw (though — why do you have a chain saw in the city?), you’re welcome to break some felled trees down into firewood, too.

3850 Ford Road, Philadelphia, PA 19131; phila.gov/services/trees-parks-the-environment/get-organic-materials/