Residential and Commercial
Curbside Composting
for the Capital Region
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Have our mascot, Scrappy, watching your back! Shirt has the Foodscraps360 logo printed on the left breast, with our mascot printed across the back.
Carry our mascot, Scrappy, with you! This canvas bag features our mascot printed on one side.
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Show everyone how you love to feed the Earth with your food scraps! This hat has an adjustable strap to have a universal fit.
Feed the Earth, Not the Landfill! This shirt features our slogan on the chest and our logo on the left breast, letting people know what to do and where to go to do it!
We make composting easy.
1. Collect
your food scraps
It’s EASY! Line your kitchen bin with one of our facility-approved BPI certified compostable bags - which you can order in your customer portal and have delivered to you on your next pick-up day! - and then simply put your food waste into your kitchen bin. (You can see the full list of what’s compostable here.) When you’re done, tie up the bag, and throw it into your compost bin.
2. Put your bin by the curb
On your designated pick-up day, you bring your compost bin out to your stoop and then smile, because you’re saving the planet! One of our Foodscraps360 Team Drivers will be by to pick it up, just like normal trash. They can also deliver anything ordered through the customer portal at that time - replacement bags, compost, etc.
3. Feed the
earth!
Your food scraps then gets composted by our partners at the Town of Bethlehem Compost Facility and turned into one of the richest soil amendments for backyard gardeners, landscapers, and our agricultural industry - returning your food waste to the Earth!
37% of all food in the U.S. goes to waste.
Composting food scraps turns them into a rich fertilizer, returns nutrients back to our foods, fights soil desertification, sequesters greenhouse gasses, and prevents the release of methane into our atmosphere.
48% of food waste happens at home.
Food scraps are not trash.
Food Waste and organics make up about 50% of our landfills. When we put our food waste into the landfill, it rots and releases tons of methane gas into the atmosphere, the greenhouse gas effect of which is 80x worse than that of C02.
Europe has been separating their food waste for over 30 years. But here in the U.S. our landfills are filling up fast. Right here at home, the Albany County Landfill is only a few years from being full. Together we have the power to change that, and we can start right now!
When food waste is composted, it breaks down naturally and allows for billions of nutrients and microorganisms to be returned back into the Earth. The result? COMPOST!
Compost is a soil amendment that is pure gold for landscapers, backyard farmers, and our entire agricultural industry. It creates an incredibly fertile, water-absorbing, and nutrient-dense soil ecosystem. It also eliminates the need for fertilizers and pesticides, which pollute our groundwater, our communities and our animals.
Our goal is to make composting accessible in the Capital District, so everyone has the chance to participate in repairing our carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Check Out What We Do In This Video!
Why Compost?
The Professionals’ 7-minute story
Compost Jingle
By Lisa Pellegrino