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What a great time of year to divert your foodscraps from your waste stream! Now if you live in Greenfield you can sign up for our curbside services, joining a movement to reduce our impact on the climate and build local jobs. Customers pre-pay one month in advance. If you sign up in August, we'll pick up your scraps in September for free. We even provide a rinsed bucket and tight-fitting lid with every pickup!
How does it work?
By 8 AM on Monday mornings, you’ll set out on the curb a 5-gallon bucket of compostable food scraps, including bones, paper towels, and oily pizza boxes--and we'll swap it with a rinsed one. We haul to our partner Martin's Farm, the largest commercial composting facility in western Massachusetts. Martin's Farm accepts many more items than can be composted in home compost bins, such as compostable containers and utensils. Find out what you can compost at Martin's Farm HERE.
Sign up in August for our services and your second month will be free!
We offer:
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weekly pickups
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$24 per calendar month
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every-other-week pickups
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$15 per calendar month
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Addressing climate change requires that we reduce food waste and divert scraps from the waste stream headed to landfills and incinerators. That’s because industrialized nations waste up to 40 percent of food produced—such a horrible statistic—and rotting food in landfills contributes to CO2 and methane emissions and pollution when it is burned. If instead those scraps are turned into nutrient-rich compost and added to gardens and farms, through the process of photosynthesis plants can actually pull carbon out of the atmosphere and back into the soil.
Developed inside the Greenfield Jail in response to the lack of living-wage employment for people coming out of jail, the Compost Co-op, after a year in operation is already diverting more than 6 tons of foodscraps and other compostables per month from businesses and households in Greenfield. We partner with Martin’s Farm, the largest composting facility in western Mass, which accepts many more items than folks can compost in a home composting bin, such as paper towels, bones, compostable containers and utensils, and even oily pizza boxes. We also collaborate with the town farm, Just Roots, where we are developing our own compost using “clean” foodscraps from food processors.
Building economic opportunity, working with other local cooperatives and businesses, and spreading the word about the importance of composting keeps us going in the heat of summer when the smells and maggots are in full force.
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