Helping you
combat climate change
by making composting easy
CUSTOMIZED
CONTAINER-SWAP
COMPOSTING SERVICE
10% OFF for all new customers with annual or quarterly payment
10% OFF for all new customers with annual or quarterly payment
Composting Services
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composting for your household’s food waste.
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give special pricing to residents and businesses in these municipalities.
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you can start small with 5-gallon buckets or go all-in with 32-gallon totes.
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are the way to compost communally in multi-unit buildings or neighborhoods.
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of all sizes are possible with our composting containers and expert staffing to guide your guests in sorting all waste streams.
How it works
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the custom service plan that makes composting easiest for you.
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the size and number of containers you need and friendly e-mail communications about swapout dates, holiday schedules, and informative blog posts.
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with food scraps and CMA-W-certified compostable products and put it outside for swapout, wherever it’s easiest for you.
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for an empty, washed container.
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and divert your food scraps happily ever after.
Composting in Chicagoland
You can receive composting services in any of these neighborhoods and municipalities. The bright green areas are the suburbs we service, the dark green areas are the Chicago neighborhoods, and the orange areas are the municipalities in which we have exclusive franchise agreements for our container-swap service, which we call our community composting programs. Learn more here about how you can paint your town orange.
Community Composting Programs
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residents and businesses benefit from special year-round pricing and a winter gap program.
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residents and businesses benefit from special year-round pricing.
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residents and businesses benefit from special year-round pricing.
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could have special pricing too. Resources for you to help your entire community combat climate change are on the community composting programs page.
Flexible Service Options
High-Volume Composting
You can demonstrate your commitment to a sustainable future by composting at your restaurant, school, office, faith community, or other institution. Your organization can help to combat climate change by reducing the amount of waste going to landfills.
Customer Testimonials
Own the Solution
For 13 years, Erlene Howard owned the solution and she’s ready to share. This ownership opportunity in the co-op is available to employees, customers and other supporters in our composting community. We’re better together.
Let's compost together!
Ready to start composting? After just a few quick steps you'll be on your way to composting in your home, at your next event, or at your office. You won't believe how much your landfill waste will be reduced.
Frequently Asked Questions
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All food scraps and certified compostable products can be put in your container. See our What to Compost page for guidance.
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You want an easy, actionable way to combat climate change and make a positive difference in your loved ones’ futures. Diverting your food scraps from a landfill through composting both reduces the amount of methane your household is responsible for producing and recovers resources to enable the nutrients present in your food waste to become a natural fertilizer to regenerate our soil.
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Our 5-gallon buckets have lids that seal tightly. Our 32-gallon totes are bagged and also have lids. When the containers are closed, they do not smell. As it gets closer to your swap-out day, you may notice that the contents smell when you open it. The odor dissipates soon after you’ve closed it up. If keeping your bucket or tote outside is an option, that would help. Some customers freeze some of their food scraps and place them in our collection containers on the swap-out day. Click here(Link) for ideas on how to set up compost collection in your kitchen. You may also see our blog post about managing your compost collection (Link) during the summer for additional tips and tricks.
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Each spring, we offer 10 free gallons of finished compost to our customers at what we’ve named our Spring Finished Compost Gift-Back. We offer several different days for customers to bring their own containers, collect their compost, and have the opportunity to purchase more if they need more. We partner with our colleagues in the local composting and farming community to provide this gift for our customers. Find out more about finished compost gift-back.