JUST GOOD COMPOST
How It Works
JUST GOOD COMPOST
We use refurbished buckets - no plastic manufacturing here.
Changing our community’s carbon
footprint one doorstep hello at a time!
Fill the bucket with kitchen scraps (including meat, bones, and napkins) “If you eat it, we’ll take it”.
Each week, our team collects your kitchen scraps and drops off a clean bucket. No hassle, no odours, no pests.
Your food scraps are composted locally and finished compost is returned to you in the spring, or donated to local charities
Sign up to receive your first bucket.
We use refurbished buckets - no plastic manufacturing here.
Fill the bucket with kitchen scraps (including meat, bones, and napkins) “If you eat it, we’ll take it”.
Each week, our team collects your kitchen scraps and drops off a clean bucket. No hassle, no odours, no pests.
Your food scraps are composted locally and finished compost is returned to you in the spring, or donated to local charities
We believe in employment for social good. Our team is the best!
Just Good Compost employs local people with developmental disabilities providing meaningful, socially-engaging work. We teach job skills in a fun and encouraging team environment. We employ 32 (and counting) local people with developmental disabilities!
Amazingly important for the environment.
Organics do not decompose in the landfill. Rather, they gradually leak Methane, a green-house-gas that is 80-100 times more harmful to the environment than Carbon Dioxide. By keeping food waste out of the garbage methane production is avoided. However, composting also captures carbon from the atmosphere, reducing instead of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions!
Receive top quality compost for your garden.
Each spring, our high grade compost is returned to our customers and donated to local charities such as the youth centre and community gardens.
Frequently Asked Questions
Things that we do take:
- – Anything edible
- – Meat & bones
- – Salads (with or without dressing)
- – Coffee grounds in paper filters
- – Bread
- – Pits, peels, and seeds
- – Pet food
- – Houseplant trimmings
- – Paper napkins
Things we don’t take:
- – Diapers
- – Pet feces or cat litter
- – Plastic wrap or labels
- – Fake “compostable” plastics such as bin liners and keurig style coffee pods
You’d be surprised how much of your waste is compostable. Even our customers who live alone often fill ½ to ¾ of a bucket per week.
If you aren’t sure if you’d fill a bucket alone, you might consider sharing a compost subscription with a neighbour. It’s a great way to build community.
Having a party or cleaning out your fridge, a one-time additional bucket is always free (just ask). We offer ongoing additional buckets for $10/month.
Backyard composting is great, but it comes with hassles…it needs to be turned, it can smell… In the winter, piles freeze and paths need to be shoveled to the bin in -40 weather (you forget). Also, backyard composting is not as good for the environment. This is because they typically exclude meat and bones, which, because they are so calorie dense, produce the most methane in the landfill. Subscribers of Just Good Compost can compost year-round, including meat and bones, with no hassles.
Yes, on Compost Day, customers can come and pick up fresh compost for their gardens.