WHAT WE DO
Compost Cab makes it easy to compost in the city.
We deploy a clean, convenient, and cost-effective pick-up service for your organics. Then we deliver these materials to a nearby not-for-profit urban farm, where they’re transformed into the fertile soil needed to grow good, nutritious food for the local community. Everybody wins.
As we pursue our shared goals of building a more sustainable city and living healthier lives, we’re excited to invite you to join Compost Cab. Please sign up between now and mid-September to be included for October pickups. And if you’ve already signed up as a charter customer, thanks! We look forward to your first pickups starting after Labor Day.
EASY BEING GREEN
There’s no waste in nature –
everything gets reused one way or another. Composting is simply our way of taking advantage of that. Together, we’re harnessing the natural breakdown of organic material, so we can decrease waste to landfills, reduce air pollution, mitigate climate change, and create fertile new soil.
It’s only trash if you treat it like trash. Instead of throwing off methane in some landfill, your organics will be creating soil in the city! Isn’t that cool?
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. Working together, we can:
- Establish a more equitable and just food system
- Fight obesity and poor nutrition
- Improve learning in challenged schools
- 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 primary composting partner, Engaged Community Offshoots (ECO), a seed-stage urban farm operating on three acres inside the Beltway in and around College Park, MD.
Both Compost Cab and ECO completed courses in commercial urban agriculture under Macarthur fellow Will Allen at Growing Power in Milwaukee, WI. Mastering and teaching natural composting and vermicomposting techniques was a core component of our training. We think helping our community compost the right way, naturally and locally, is key to building a more sustainable city.
GET STARTED
What are you waiting for? It’s so easy!
- We provide you with a bin.
- You fill the bin with what you used to call garbage: food scraps, coffee grounds, all sorts of stuff.
- We pick it up.
Then we turn your organics – it’s not waste – into beautiful, fertile soil. After that it’s up to you: keep some for yourself, or we can donate it for you to a local, not-for-profit urban farmer who grows sustainable, nutritious food for the community. 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 through innovative agricultural, manufacturing, and clean-energy ventures. We also define “agricity” as a quality or state of balanced,…