Thank you again 🙏!
Looks like City of LA stuff is tested, but the compost and multiple I get are not filtered from trash so it’s less appealing to want to use for vegetable gardening as you can see in my photos if you open up to max resolution. There’s a lot of trash in there, especially plastic bags pieces. I’ve been wanting to go Griffith Park composting which is only 9 miles away, but I have a closer pickup site near by to save some time. And from the City of Sanitation link, the mulch giveaway site material come from Lopez Canyon Enviornmental Center.
Boyle Heights Mulch Giveaway Site
850 N Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90033
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https://compostingcouncil.org/participants/City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Sanitation
Contact: John Hamilton
T: 818-834-5111
F: 818-834-5116
Email
2 Compost Manufacturing Facilities, 3 STA products
1 – Lopez Canyon Environmental Center
11950 Lopez Canyon Rd.
Lakeview Terrace, CA 91342
2 STA products – Compost and mulch
2 – Griffith Park Composting Facility
5400 Griffith Park Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
**There are some lab results from Griffith Park compost at bottom of this post, but the results are more than 1 year ago, thank you “pineislander” for the link!
https://www.lacitysan.org/san/faces/home/portal/s-lsh-wwd/s-lsh-wwd-s/s-lsh-wwd-s-gw/s-lsh-wwd-s-gw-gpcf?_afrLoop=10913309291897147&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=y0u3t17ux&_adf.ctrl-state=cq7kiua1h_568#!%40%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dy0u3t17ux%26_afrLoop%3D10913309291897147%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Dcq7kiua1h_572Just because 'some guy' says so isn't a real reason to do anything.
Check the data for LA compost yourself:
https://www.lacitysan.org/san/faces/home/portal/s-lsh-wwd/s-lsh-wwd-s/s-lsh-wwd-s-gw/s-lsh-wwd-s-gw-sta;jsessionid=gKClzcD1tR_tjv7w78SrUzg30q9XWsy_E78tNqKqmJb6rsa7mc4U!1511500448!727084434?_afrLoop=10738200133044499&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=lanacion.com.ar;apw_exc_fcf=1540350000.0.1.n_2184390.gDoedE9_kIVq213Mwi32nOWX_n4q7kYjw3XObKzO3yM;apw_aac_0=1542937916.34.1.KG5fMjE4NDM5MCwxNTQyOTM3OTE2KQ.sCJLmRAQUbXZJ7qHtZNSmBQzWwdxlmt7WyT8FDNcx-8&_adf.ctrl-state=10kapfr3g9_1#!%40%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dlanacion.com.ar%253Bapw_exc_fcf%253D1540350000.0.1.n_2184390.gDoedE9_kIVq213Mwi32nOWX_n4q7kYjw3XObKzO3yM%253Bapw_aac_0%253D1542937916.34.1.KG5fMjE4NDM5MCwxNTQyOTM3OTE2KQ.sCJLmRAQUbXZJ7qHtZNSmBQzWwdxlmt7WyT8FDNcx-8%26_afrLoop%3D10738200133044499%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3D10kapfr3g9_5
The mushroom compost uses horse stable manure which has medications and cottonseed meal most of which is GMO and roundup ready. However, I figure composting takes care of most issues.
If you live in LA or most any city you've already accepted a highly polluted environmental legacy in soil and present in air.