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Food Waste Collection Services
Don’t let your food scraps go to waste! We make it easy for anyone to compost without all the hassle. We offer a wide range of convenient organics collection services for homes and larger organizations within Knoxville and surrounding areas.
Residential Curbside
We believe that every household can contribute to a greener future, which is why we provide our Residential Members with an easy and hassle-free way to compost their food scraps. Similar to a trash service, we collect food scraps on a regular basis (either weekly or bi-weekly). Receive an annual share of finished compost or donate your share to a local organization.
Commercial Collections
Businesses, restaurants, and other organizations can generate a significant amount of food waste. We offer tailored solutions for our Commercial Members to efficiently manage their waste and reduce their carbon footprint. Our members have the option to be promoted through our website, social media, and newsletter.
Event Composting
Hosting an event, large or small, presents an opportunity to showcase your commitment to sustainability. Our Event Services provide comprehensive composting solutions to ensure that food waste at your event doesn’t end up in landfills. We customize your plan to perfectly fit the needs of your event whether you’re hosting an exclusive party or a multiday festival.
Why Compost?
Benefits of Composting
It’s no mystery that landfills are filling up and will continue to do so unless we take action. About 30% of the average household waste can be composted (and another 30% can be recycled). By composting and recycling, you can reduce your landfill waste by about 60%.
Almost no landfills are designed to properly handle organic waste like food scraps and yard trimmings. When these materials go into a landfill, they decompose in an anaerobic environment (without oxygen) which produces Methane, a Greenhouse Gas that is 4x worse than Carbon Dioxide.
Compost helps soil retain moisture by increasing organic matter, improving soil structure, reducing compaction, and balancing nutrient content. Its rich organic composition acts like a sponge, absorbing and holding water for plant roots. The enhanced soil structure, with increased pore spaces, allows better water penetration and reduces runoff. Compost also promotes deeper root growth, making plants more resilient during dry periods, and helps prevent soil erosion, preserving valuable topsoil and nutrients.
For growth, plants need macronutrients like Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium (NPK). But plants also take up other micronutrients from the soil like vitamins and nutrients that humans need to be healthy. Many large crops use synthetic NPK fertilizers to grow crops, but neglect to add micronutrients back to the soil. Luckily, compost takes the leftover nutrients from our food and yard waste and recycles them back into the soil to be used over and over again.
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The Houseplant Blend
Perfectly formulated for plants inside the home, this coffeebag-sized pouch of compost is the perfect size for those who have houseplants and don’t want to lug around 20 or more pounds of compost that they can’t use right away.
25 lbs Compost Bag
Best for fertilizing gardens or houseplants, our 25-pound bag is filled with rich, sifted compost.
Available for purchase for pickup at KnoxFill or delivery straight to your home.
Bulk Compost: 1 yrd³ - 1.5 yrd³
Starting a raised bed or fertilizing a larger area? We deliver bulk premium compost or compost mulch in 1-2 yrd³ loads to your home or business so you can save time and money.
Pictured above: 1 cubic yard of premium compost.
How to use our compost
- There's no such thing as too much compost! Apply any amount to any soil, any time of the year. Need more instructions? Here are some mixing tips:
- For potting new plants or starting a raised bed, mix 25% compost and 75% fill dirt.
- To fertilize potted plants, your garden, or other soil–gently break up or lightly rake the top inch of soil, then apply a 1-3 inch layer of compost to the soil. Gently water the soil to help compost absorb into the soil.
Why choose our compost?
Unlike most store-bought compost mixes, our premium compost is a concentrated fertilizer that is meticulously crafted from food scraps and other organic matter. Instead of rushing the final product, we let our finished compost cure for at least 2 months so it can age to perfection.
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