Boston’s official residential food waste collection program is provided by Garbage to Garden, Inc. Meeting Boston’s zero-waste goals is a tall order, and no one solution can be used. In order to meet the scale of the program in Boston, we rely on current available infrastructure while we continue to explore new opportunities for composting.
GARBAGE TO GARDEN, INC.
Garbage to Garden began with an idea to make municipal-scale composting easy, clean, and accessible to all. Founded in 2012, our beloved curbside compost service offers residents, schools and commercial businesses a convenient way to recycle food scraps to renew our local soil. To meet the ever-growing demand for our services, our team has grown to 45 full time employees between Maine and Massachusetts.
The ethos of Garbage to Garden is rooted in the spirit of sustainability and supporting the local economy as an engaged community member and responsible employer. We believe with the help and support of the community that we can reach our goal of eliminating food scraps from the waste stream to benefit the environment and our communities. By working with composting facilities, we seek to return nutrients to the soil to support our local food system. Garbage to Garden is known for innovative solutions to waste management, high quality compost for gardens, and uncompromising reliability backed up with outstanding customer service.
CITY OF BOSTON
Released in 2019, Boston’s Zero Waste Plan includes 30 near- and long-term strategies to divert at least 80 percent of the City’s waste from landfills and municipal solid waste combustors by 2035. Key pieces of the plan include expanding Boston’s composting program, increasing access to recycling opportunities and launching a city-wide education campaign on recycling.