How Composting Works
From your curbside to living soil — here's exactly what happens to your organic material and why it matters.
The Solution
Your Organic Waste Doesn't Belong in a Landfill.
Food scraps, yard waste, and other organic materials make up nearly 60% of what goes to landfills. When buried without oxygen, they produce methane — a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than COâ‚‚. Meanwhile, your soil is starving for the exact organic matter you're throwing away.
60%+
OF LANDFILL WASTE
IS ORGANIC MATERIAL
25x
MORE POTENT THAN COâ‚‚
(METHANE FROM LANDFILLS)
200+
POUNDS DIVERTED PER
HOUSEHOLD PER YEAR
We Turn Your Waste Into What Your Soil Needs.
Composting is nature's recycling system. We manage the process professionally so your organic material becomes living soil instead of landfill methane.
From Your Place to Our Facility
On your scheduled pickup day, we collect your container of organic material and leave a clean one in its place. Your material is transported to our 24-acre composting facility in Jackson, TN.
Before entering the composting system, we do a quick visual check for contamination (plastic, metal, non-compostables). Occasional mistakes happen — we work with you to eliminate these contaminate.
The Biology Gets to Work
Your material enters our windrow composting system — large, managed piles where microorganisms break down organic matter aerobically (with oxygen, not without it like in a landfill).
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Temperature matters: Our piles reach and maintain 140°F+ for extended periods. This heat kills pathogens, weed seeds, and ensures safe, clean finished compost. We monitor temperatures daily.
Aeration matters: We turn the piles regularly to introduce oxygen and maintain the microbial activity that drives decomposition. Without oxygen, you get methane. With oxygen, you get compost.
During this phase, the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio balances, the structure breaks down, and what was once recognizable kitchen scraps becomes dark, earthy material.
The Compost Matures
After the hot phase, compost needs time to stabilize. We age it for several weeks, allowing slower microbial processes to finish the job and letting temperatures drop to ambient levels.
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Aged compost is stable, nutrient-rich, and won't rob nitrogen from soil when applied. This step separates our finished compost from other's half-done material.
Worms Finish What We Started
Once we get our compost to a safe temperature we introduce our red wiggler worms to process it further, producing worm castings — the most concentrated natural soil amendment available.
Worm castings are what residential and commercial subscribers receive as part of their annual give back allocation. This step is optional but significantly increases the biological activity of the finished product.
We conduct periodic lab testing to verify microbial diversity, nutrient content, and pathogen absence. Our process is backed by data, not guesswork.
Week 1 - Pickup
Week 2-8 - Hot Composting
Week 9-12 - Maturation
Week 13+ - Vermicomposting
What Happens If You Don't Compost?
Every pound of organic material you throw in the trash joins millions of tons already buried in anaerobic conditions, producing methane for decades. That same pound could have rebuilt soil, sequestered carbon, and fed the microbial life that makes plants thrive. The choice isn't just environmental — it's agricultural. We're throwing away the solution to dead soil while complaining that nothing grows like it used to.
Your Scraps Come Back to You as Soil.
Once a year, residential subscribers receive an allocation of finished compost and worm castings produced from material just like yours. This isn't a giveaway — it's closing the loop the way nature intended.
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Commercial subscribers receive allocations based on contract terms, and can choose to take finished product, donate it to community gardens, and receive preferred pricing on additional purchases.
Why we do this: Composting shouldn't just be waste removal. It should rebuild what we've been destroying. Your organic material has value — we return that value to you, not to a landfill gas capture system.
