The ScrapDogs Newsletter: June 2026 🥵
- The ScrapDogs
- Jul 9
- 2 min read
Volunteer with Us at the Lobster Festival
ScrapDogs is excited to be composting for our FIFTH year in a row at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland next month, and we need your help!
We're looking for volunteers to help us collect lobster shells from tables, sort out contaminants, and chit chat with Festival-goers about composting. Our volunteers will work 2- or 3-hour shifts in return for one free month of composting, free admission to the Festival, a Lobster Festival Volunteer Shirt, and a grand ol' time! Bring a friend or family member and get ready for some buttery shuttling.
It's Summertime!
For many Mainers, summer means beach sunsets, fresh seafood, and roadside dips in the lake. For many Maine composters, summer also means stinky compost buckets, quick decomposition, and potentially... maggots. Although all of these occurrences are natural, they can be a bit less enjoyable than a nice oceanside lobster roll!
Here are a few tips to keep your compost bucket as fresh as possible in the heat:
Sprinkle on some sawdust. New this week, you can order a little baggie of clean sawdust to use as odor suppressant! Just add a layer of sawdust to your bucket after a potentially stinky addition. Check it out in the Shop: "Bucket Topper."
Keep that lid on tight! We know sometimes our lids are difficult to latch on entirely, but in the warm weather they're a bit more malleable. Keeping the bucket as close to air-tight as possible between uses will keep flies out and smell in.
Store it in a cool spot. Keep that stinker out of the sun.
Increase your pickup frequency. Shoot us an email to request an extra pickup, or to upgrade your subscription to more frequent pickups!
Composter Shout-Out: The Town of Northport
We're so lucky to be collaborating with the Town of Northport on their newest composting endeavors! The Town received grant funding to provide a free food scrap drop-off program to their residents at the Northport Transfer Station, along with free starter kit buckets and countertop bins!
If you're a Northport resident, you can stop by the Town Office any day they're open to collect your free bucket and countertop bin, learn more about the program, and get started composting. Use your new bucket to shuttle your scraps to the Public Drop-Off bins at the dump for no fee.
Have a bit of ick about cleaning your bucket out? Looking for finished compost in return? Don't worry: our Northport subscription program is still active and accepting subscribers!
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