Description
Materials Accepted
By subscribing to Composting Service, your office agrees to only include materials listed that are compostable and not include any materials that are not listed. Midtown Composting reserves the right to not pick up a bucket if discovered upon pickup, the bucket contains materials not accepted, without refund or credit.
- Fruit and vegetables
- Meat and bones
- Bread
- Eggshells
- All food waste including plate scrapings and uneaten food
- Napkins
- Paper plates
- Compostable cups and cutlery (Greensafe, Ingeo, anything labeled “compostable”)
- Coffee grounds with filter
- Teabags (make sure they’re not made of plastic)
- Unprinted cardboard; paper towel rolls
- Soiled pizza boxes bottoms (Unsoiled tops are recyclable)
- Q-Tip brand cotton swabs (other brands only if no plastic material)
Collection Buckets
The 5-gallon collection bucket (or 30 gallon bin) that will be provided upon initiation of service is the property of Midtown Composting. Your office agrees to not modify, or utilize the bucket for any other purpose other than for collection and pickup of organic materials.
Lost or stolen buckets will incur a $5.00 replacement fee. Bucket lids will endure a $2.00 replacement fee. Lost or stolen bins will incur an $85.00 replacement fee.
If you choose to cancel the service, we will approve the cancelation as soon as we get our bucket back.
Sort Properly!
If we need to sort and/or throw away contents from a bucket due to contamination, there is a $10 charge for each bucket. The fee is $30 for lawn bags and bins. Small, incidental amounts of contamination is ok, but we do not want to serve events that have non-compostable products like water bottles and non-compostable sauce cups, or those little plastic pizza savers, etc.
Sarah Crane (verified owner) –
We had a great experience using Midtown Composting to compost the food waste from a backyard party. They dropped off a large bin the day before the party and picked it up the day after, as planned. It was super easy; we just had to make sure we had compostable plates and utensils.
Event food waste composting also came in handy when we came back from out of town to find out that we had lost power for several days and unfortunately needed to get rid of everything in our fridge and freezer. They dropped off another bin, we filled it up, and then they picked it up. It was a bummer to lose all of that food, but at least it was able to have a second life as compost.