Justen came out of the military unemployed and without an idea what direction he wanted to go. Fast forward 10+ years to today, Veteran Compost has two compost sites in the DC/Baltimore area and is diverting food waste by the boat-load.
Episode 30. Joseph McMillan - CEO of Atlas Organics
Atlas Organics is a big fish when it comes to commercial composting and expanding food waste recycling infrastructure in the Southeast. Their CEO, Joe, joined Charlie on the podcast to discuss their plans for growth in Tampa and how they leveraged equity investors to take their game to the next level.
It's Time For the Fall Compost Giveback! 🌱🌶🥕🥑
We’re doing the giveback a little differently this season.
O-Town Compost subscribers now have the option to go to the shop in their customer profile, and order their 20lbs share of O-Town Black Gold finished compost! Once ordered, you will be receiving it on the next regularly scheduled pickup date. Please don’t forget to put out the empty bucket after you’ve used your compost!
Subscribers have until 10/15 to order their free share of compost for the Fall until our next giveback in March 2022.
Follow the instructions below to order your share of free compost. Happy planting 😉
Step 1. Login to customer portal
Step 2. Select the ‘Shop’ tab on the menu at the top
Step 3. Order the free item titled “Compost Giveback - Fall 2021”
Compost Giveback - Just in Time For Spring Planting
It’s that time of year again when the dirty bearded hipster version of Santa Claus drops 20-pound buckets of O-Town Black Gold on each of his subscribers’ door steps. Just in time for people to get their Spring planting on!
This March giveback, we are set to return 2,300 pounds of compost to our amazing customers, and 1,760 pounds to Fleet Farming for those who opted to donate their share. In these last six months since our last giveback, we’ve turned close to 23 tons of food scraps into beautiful rich compost to improve Central Florida’s sandy soils.
It still boggles our mind how this…
Becomes this…
First Batch of Compost Will Be Distributed to Subscribers Early!
To show our immense appreciation for our loyal Orlando subscribers in the time of the COVID19 pandemic, we thought it was time to give back, and move everyone’s distribution date up early. Due the shutdown, more people are at home cooking and gardening, and it just makes sense. This doesn’t mean that our subscribers WON’T receive their regularly scheduled share 6-months from their subscription date either. Everyone who selected to “receive” their share of compost will still be delivered an additional 20 lbs 6 months from the date they hit “subscribe.” All we ask is to please empty the bucket, and put it back on your porch for us to collect during a normal pickup day, so we can keep reusing them. (Fun Fact: The 3.5-gallon compost buckets are old cream cheese icing buckets from Publix!)
Four hundred pounds of compost is going out this week and next to our subscribers who selected to receive their shares, and 400 pounds are going to Fleet Farming as a donation to their urban gardening efforts. A total of 800 pounds of O-Town Black Gold will be recycled into the community to improve our soil’s health! That’s right…Thanks to your banana peels, flower trimmings, and coffee grounds we have finished the composting process on our first batch of compost! We encourage you to use it in your vegetable gardens, as a potting mix, or just sprinkle it through your lawn to improve the seeding process.
Isn’t #CommunityComposting a beautiful thing?
