1. Partnerships

Compost NOW partners with local farms, public spaces, and like minded businesses to secure drop off centers that build upon the community model that fosters sharing, reuse of local resources, and welcomes people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. We partner with local farms and gardens who do the actual composting of the food scraps.

2. Community Drop-Off

You freeze your food scraps throughout the week and bring them in a compostable bag or reusable container to our drop off locations.

Freeze it, bring it, dump it, go!

Drop off sites can accept fruit and vegetable scraps (peels, pits, seeds), eggshells, nut shells, seed shells, tea bags, coffee grounds, filters, plain grains, plain pasta or plain bread in a paper or compostable bag or bring scraps in a reusable container. 

NO MEAT, NO DAIRY, NO OILY FOODS, NO BONES.

Take the VOW to Compost NOW.

3. Transport to local farms

We partner with local organizations—like Sugar Roots Farm—which turn your food waste into nutrient-rich compost or feed to their farm chickens, pigs and hogs! 

We want to reduce “food waste miles” to keep our carbon impact as low as possible, so we encourage and promote decentralized drop off sites across New Orleans, with different locations offered daily — including sites across the river and in the East — which helps limit the amount of travel needed to transport food waste to farms.

Our Partners over the years

(note: this section needs to be updated!)