Curbside Food Waste Pickup

Tired of throwing your food waste into the garbage to be hauled off to a landfill where they will emit greenhouse gases? Our curbside pickup service exists to divert food waste from the landfill and instead haul it to composting sites in the triangle area. Please note that at this time we can only offer this service in and around Hillsborough NC. We hope to expand beyond this range in the future. 

Try it out for free! Use discount code newcomposter at checkout to active this offer. Your first month of pickups are 100% free. This allows you to see if our service is a good fit at no cost to you. Our service is extremely easy. We drop off clean 5 gallon buckets every two weeks. All you have to do is fill it up with food waste and leave it outside your front door on pickup day. Larger households may want more than one bucket in each two week period. Pricing is as follows, 1 bucket --> 18$/month, 2 buckets --> $28/month, 3 buckets --> $35/month. 

We compost your food waste Locally. By partnering with local farms we ensure that your food waste is hauled minimal distances to be composted. Some of our partner farms are in Hillsborough!

When properly composted food scraps emit significantly less greenhouse gases and the resulting compost is used to promote healthy soils. Healthy soils have an immense ability to sequester greenhouse gases from the environment! Check out this video from Dr. Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web Approach to learn more about soil carbon sequestration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECHYChDUfhQ&t=5s

In addition to sequestering carbon healthy soil provides many other vital ecosystem services. Healthy soil is the foundation of healthy ecosystems, plant, animal and human health. Compost is a very important tool in creating and maintaining healthy urban and agricultural soils. When incorporated into soils compost is able to filter 60-95% of storm water pollutants. By diverting your food waste from the landfill you are taking part in  creating compost that is used to promote soil health in your bio region! And you're helping to close the waste loop. Team up with us and begin taking meaningful action today!

Wherever possible we try to reuse materials. You may notice that the color of your bucket varies from week to week. This is because we obtain used plastic buckets from a variety of local sources whenever possible. Sometimes to meet our needs we have to buy buckets but we want to avoid this as much as possible. We are happy to accept bucket donations if you ever have any laying around! 

We are currently working to expand our composting capacity at our nursery location in Cedar Grove. This will allow us to produce enough compost to offer back to our food waste customers at a discount. We want you to have access to compost made with your food waste. In the meantime some of the farms we partner with to compost your food waste are selling their compost. Stay tuned on more info for where to buy that material.