Compost-It is a social enterprise dedicated to making food-waste recycling as easy, convenient, and accessible as possible for households, in order to minimize environmental damage from food-waste decomposing at landfill, as well as empower our communities to fight against climate change. We divert household food-waste to local growers, who turn the waste into environmentally-friendly, nutritious compost!
We have been collecting food-waste for free from households in Roundhay for over 5 months now, not missing a single week - we've collected in the snow, heavy winds, and even on Christmas!
The reception from the community has been beyond anything we could have ever imagined, and we would love to expand and be able to collect from even more households. For us to be able to do this, we are trying to raise money to help increase our capacity for collection. We have been collecting on foot using a mix of bags, strollers, and a cart, and the waste can get quite heavy, so we are hoping to raise enough money to get an electric bike to make the transport easier + more time-efficient! We are also hoping to purchase another composting unit to increase the capacity of the food-waste we can collect, as well as essential equipment such as caddies and containers for transportation.
Any little bit helps, and thank you so much for taking the time to read about what we do!