URBAN COMPOSTING MADE EASY
A greener home. A more sustainable city.
1. We provide you with a convenient, customized compost collection bin.
2. You fill the bin with your food scraps — if it grows it goes!
3. Once a week we collect your organics, and leave you with a nice, clean bin.
It’s that simple. Then we take your compostables to one of our nearby not-for-profit urban farm partners, where they’re transformed into the fertile soil we need to grow food in the city.
Sign up now and we’ll have you composting before you know it!
NO WASTE
It’s only trash if you treat it like trash.
There’s no waste in nature; everything gets reused. Composting is simply our way of harnessing the natural breakdown of organic material and putting it to work for us. Why? So we can decrease waste to landfills, reduce air pollution, mitigate climate change, and create fertile new soil.
The average American family produces 10-12 pounds of food waste each week. It adds up — call it 500 pounds per household per year. That means for every four families that compost with Compost Cab, we divert a ton of waste each year.
SERVE THE COMMUNITY
It’s not just about waste reduction. It’s about food production.
Connecting to urban agriculture takes composting beyond the environmental benefits of waste reduction – it’s also about local food production. About education. About job creation. Working together, we can:
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Establish a more equitable and just food system
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Fight obesity and poor nutrition
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Improve learning opportunities in schools
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Create green-collar jobs, especially for people with blue-collar experience
NATURAL & LOCAL
Composting begins at home… but it doesn’t end there.
We’re proud to be working with our not-for-profit composting partners:
ECO City Farms is designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local farming, using vermicomposting techniques to transform organic waste into nutrient-rich
soil amendments for intensive production of organic food on a one-acre farmsite.
The Farm at Walker Jones is a seed-stage urban farm that serves the kids, families, and neighbors of a Washington, DC public elementary school, only a mile north of the U.S. Capitol.
Compost Cab trained in urban agriculture under Macarthur fellow Will Allen at Growing Power in Milwaukee, WI. We think helping our community compost the right way, naturally and locally, is key to building a more sustainable city.
GET STARTED
Magic. At less than $8 per week!
No odors. No pests. No worries. Your monthly Compost Cab subscription is just about the easiest, most cost-effective, most tangible way to green your home. Why not get started today?
Finally, a way to compost that doesn’t stink.
Sign up now.
About
Compost Cab is a production of Agricity LLC, a Washington DC based company committed to building healthier, more sustainable, more productive cities. www.agricity.net