Turn Your Food Scraps Into Soil
Weekly food scrap pickup in greater Grand Rapids
Turn your kitchen scraps into healthy soil with weekly compost collection.
Grand Rapids Compost provides curbside organic waste collection for residents and businesses in the greater Grand Rapids area.
Together we can showcase Grand Rapids’ creative potential to turn waste into something beautiful!
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Our family has been thrilled with GR Compost! The service is affordable, reliable, and convenient. ”
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Residential Compost Service:
$39/month or $400/year
Includes: weekly pickup, compost container, free yard waste drop off and access to finished compost
Family Owned. Locally Operated. Serving West Michigan since 2010!
Why do we compost?
Improve Soil Structure & Health
Adding finished compost to the soil can improve soil structure, creating better aeration and drainage, preventing erosion, and improving moisture and nutrient retention.
Reduce Use of Synthetic Fertilizers
Finished compost acts as a natural fertilizer containing essential nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium that aid in plant growth.
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Composting reduces methane emissions — a potent greenhouse gas that causes climate change — as methane-producing microbes are not active in the presence of oxygen.
From Food Waste to Nutrient-Rich Compost
Food waste collected from you and your sustainably conscious neighbors is brought to our composting site just south of Grand Rapids. We put the materials into small piles with wood chips, straw and leaves. The piles are turned regularly to aerate as the materials break down.
We use a process called vermicomposting that utilizes worms to help break down the food waste. After the material composts for a few months, the piles become hospitable to red worms. Worms and “good” microorganisms continue to break down the food waste and inoculate the compost in the process.
Once it has reached a final stage the compost is black, crumbly and finely textured. The final product is a nutrient dense, microbial rich soil amendment high in nitrogen and trace minerals used to improve soil structure, water retention, and fertility.
Every six months, curbside service subscribers are eligible to receive a bucket of finished compost. Add the compost to your garden and give your plants a boost!