Composting Service for Businesses & Organizations

You can make your business or organization more sustainable, and we can help. We provide composting services for businesses like restaurants, caterers, and venues to organizations like faith communities, schools, soup kitchens, and food pantries. We make it easy for you to begin composting and reduce landfill waste.  

For a list of specific customers, see A Sampling of Happy Customers below.

We also offer special commercial food scrap collection rates for our Evanston, Park Ridge, and Skokie community programs.

  • the custom service plan that makes composting easiest for you.

  • the size and number of containers you need and friendly e-mail communications about swapout dates, holiday schedules and informative blog postings.

  • your staff on the composting process, either in-person or via zoom.

  • with food scraps and CMA-W certified compostable products and put it outside for swapout, wherever it’s easiest for you.

  • for fresh, kitchen-ready, lined totes.

  • and divert your food scraps happily ever after.

How our 32-gallon Tote Service helps Food for Thought Catering

  • restaurant compost hauling service chicago and suburbs
  • composting for offices and schools around chicago
  • commercial food waste hauling
  • high volume food waste hauling pickup

A Sampling of Our Happy Customers

  • Backlot Coffee—Evanston & Chicago
    Campagnola
    Dos Toros Taqueria—Dearborn & Wacker
    necessary & sufficient coffee
    Sopraffina
    Spacca Napoli Pizzeria
    Tweet
    Union Pizzeria

  • Beth Emet The Free Synagogue
    Holy Trinity Lutheran Church – Chicago
    Immanuel Lutheran Church
    Kol Sasson
    Park Ridge Presbyterian Church
    St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Unitarian Church of Evanston (UCE)

  • British Int’l School Chicago
    Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Families Together Nursery School
    Glencoe School District 35
    North Park University
    Rush University Medical Center
    UIC

  • Cards Against Humanity
    Crate & Barrel – Northbrook
    Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery
    FlowersFlowers
    Goose Island Beer Co
    LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics

  • Chicago White Sox – Guaranteed Rate Field
    Lifeline Theatre
    Live Nation Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
    The Westin O’Hare
    Village of Skokie – Skokie Park District

Frequently Asked Questions

  • All food scraps and certified compostable products can be put in your container. See our What to Compost page for guidance.

  • Yes, and we can even offer you truckload pricing. Some of our larger composting customers are able to divert up to a ton and a half of food waste per truckload.

  • 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.

  • 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. Here are 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.