GROW FOOD NOT LANDFILLS

We pick up your food scraps and turn them into compost.
See how easy it is to grow food and not landfills.

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How It Works

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1. We deliver your bin, and you fill it!

We provide you with a sealable four-gallon container where you toss your food waste and other compostable waste. (Need more than one? We can give you up to four containers!)

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2. YOU PUT IT OUTSIDE

Just place your bin where we left it on your first service day and we'll pick it up on your scheduled pick up days!

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3. WE PICK IT UP

We pick up your bin and leave you with an empty, clean bin to fill for the next week. Your material is taken to the processing facility and turned into compost.

Compost

4. WE BRING YOU COMPOST!

You receive complimentary compost delivered at your residence that you can redeem at any time using your user portal!

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Why Compost?

Food waste just left to rot in a landfill produces methane gas, not compost. This methane plays a key role in the depletion of our ozone layer and climate change. When you give us your food scraps, you reduce methane production— which lessens your environmental impact – and produces usable, natural plant fertilizer (aka Compost!).
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Claire Meneely

It's been a pleasure to work with Beadle and Compost Nashville. Before working with them we were throwing away lots of food waste, but now it is composted instead of going into the landfills. It is important to us at Dozen Bakery to limit our environmental impact and Compost Nashville helps us do that. The whole process is very easy!

Alison Lutz

When I first moved to Nashville, one of my priorities was to more intentionally live out my values of sustainability and self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, I’ve unsuccessfully tried composting in the past and knew that starting another feral cat-attracting food scrap pile in the backyard probably wouldn’t be a great way to make friends with my new neighbors (or landlord). Luckily, I saw a flyer for Compost Nashville in the window of the Post, a great coffee shop in East Nashville, and thought it sounded like the perfect compromise. They’d take my compost-ables away each week? And I didn’t have to invest in the start-up costs of worms or a tumbler? And I’d get batches of rich, delicious, local compost delivered straight to my door in spring and fall? I signed up that day, and I’m so glad I did! While I'm definitely still a novice gardener, Compost Nashville has given me an easy and rewarding way to reduce my environmental impact, to improve my gardening skills, and to live out my values. For about a dollar a day, what's not to love?

Christie

After building a few raised bed gardens at our house, we began composting with Compost Nashville. We were planning what to grow in our garden with our kids and talking about the growing process and dirt and the life cycle of it all, and it just seemed necessary that we do this garden thing while also composting. For several reasons we couldn't get a composting system up and running in our own backyard, and then we found Compost Nashville. Before then we would throw our coffee grounds underneath the bushes and the rest went to the landfill. But now we are able to compost all our waste easily and we receive finished compost for our garden twice a year! Beadle is our favorite. He's super nice, great to talk to, and my kids get really excited about the truck he pulls up in each Wednesday. The t-shirts are really cool and comfy, too.

Ben Lehman

We LOVE Compost Nashville. They were integral in helping us become a Zero Waste business. Beadle is hard working and always ready to discuss new ideas. Simply put, we couldn’t be us without our partners at Compost Nashville.

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