South Bend, Indiana Community Compost
diverting your food scraps from landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and producing a valuable soil amendment - compost.
Are you…
dedicated to reducing your food waste in landfills?
want to be involved in a composting program, but lack the space, time or knowledge?
environmentally conscious?
wish to contribute to the enrichment of local soils in a convenient way?
Food Waste Compost Service is for You!
Community composting is a model of composting that sources organic materials locally, engages the community in the composting process, and uses the compost produced in local soils.
Community composting is an important tool for organics recycling and landfill diversion, filling gaps in access and infrastructure while tackling climate change and providing a host of unique environmental, economic, and social benefits.
What is Community Composting?
Benefits of Community Composting
Like other models of composting, community composting offers benefits such as diverting organic materials, like food scraps, from landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and producing a valuable soil amendment - compost. Community composting offers additional unique benefits as it is a flexible model able to adapt to a community’s needs and resources, such as space available for composting, volume of organic materials collected, and local goals of sustainability or food sovereignty. Because the sourcing of materials, composting process, and use of the compost all happens within the same community, the benefits of community composting stay local.
