Give the gift of composting service these holidays!

Give the gift of compost service these holidays, and purchase one of our gift cards for 3, 6, and one year increments.

We guarantee your loved one will relish the warm fuzzy feeling of keeping their food scraps out of the landfill with O-Town Compost’s odor and pest-free composting subscription service. As long as they live in our service area, we’re happy to drop off a bucket and get them started, either before or after Christmas.

Compostable Doggie Bags and Gloves! NOW FOR SALE

Whether you’re a dog owner or someone looking for a solution to avoid single-use plastic, we got you covered! Now on our compostable serviceware page, we are offering a variety of compostable dog doo bags, and food prep gloves that can also be worn for everyday use to protect against COVID19. Help O-Town Compost starve the landfills of plastic.

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Food Prep Gloves (Medium) - 200

$20.00

• Restaurant quality

• Food grade certified

• 100% compostable

• Powder-free

• Multi-purpose (use them for protection against COVID19)

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Eco-Pooch Compostable Dog Bags - Belly Band (x18)

$3.00

Leash Dispenser Rolls – Rolls of 18
– Dimensions: 8.25″ x 6″ x 5.5″ high

Please note that O-Town Compost does NOT accept pet waste in our composting program yet! See what we do accept on our FAQ page.

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Eco-Pooch Compostable Dog Bags - x 120

$10.00

Standard Doggie Bags – Rolls of 120
– Dimensions: 8″ x 12″ x 6″ high

Please note that O-Town Compost does not accept pet waste in our composting program yet! See what we do accept on our FAQ page.

O-Town Compost's vision for the future

It’s been seven months since O-Town Compost entered the Orlando compost scene and we’re happy to say that we’ve been busy! Four tons of food scraps have been diverted from the landfill and turned into O-Town Black Gold thanks, in large part, to our dedicated subscribers!

The composting network has grown to a brigade of residential and a handful of commercial composters, such as offices, cosmetic retailers, and a coffee shop. We have our first Zero Waste Wedding under our belts, and were set to do more until the great COVID monster stomped through town, making social gatherings a thing of the past. Instead of immediately going into panic mode, we decided to diversify our offerings, and the On-Farm Composting Service was born to address the manure management headache that some stables and ranches constantly face. With our first stable on board, we are able to divert roughly 1,100 pounds of manure weekly, and create a beautiful soil amendment with a waste byproduct. A byproduct that some stable owners unfortunately pay to be hauled to the landfill.

Still, with all our small stories of success, we’re not quite comfortable yet. We have a long road ahead to fully address the waste problem and a lack of regenerative agriculture in Central Florida. Small isn’t necessarily bad for a community-focused business, but we’re going to need to grow in order to make serious strides in Orange County’s environmental landscape.

Right now we offer food waste collection in 16 zip codes in the county, or roughly a third of the land area. The public should look for an expansion in the next 6 months to West Orlando (West of I-4). When you request service on our contact page, we take note, and tally the number of requests from each zip code with the aim to get out there soon.

Another opportunity for growth is building our partner network. For example, stables, ranches, landscapers, etc. Any environmental operation that produces an organic byproduct that can be composted. We offer our partners a sharing of ownership on the finished compost product, and a solution to their waste byproduct. Imagine, a decentralized network of local composting facilities around Orange County, rather than the traditional approach in the waste industry, where there exists a giant, centralized facility. The benefits of small are that a smaller facility requires lower transportation costs, smaller operational costs when you are dealing with less waste, and, most importantly, the finished compost stays in the community! This, my friends, is how we break the hold of industrial agriculture and Big Waste.

Say "no" to plastic, and go compostable

We are excited to announce that we are now selling compostable food serviceware items such as cups, plates, bowls, utensils, straws, etc. Additionally, we provide easy-to-use Kitchen Caddy bins that sit on your kitchen counter making it extremely convenient to add food scraps to while cooking. And the key to keep them yuck-free is to line them with our compostable liners!

We guarantee that our products are actually “compostable” not just “bio-degradable.”

We deliver to anyone in our service-area, with deliveries to our subscribers/clients being free. Otherwise, it’s a $5 delivery fee. Thank you for supporting community composting! Let’s turn Orlando green!

O-Town Compost welcomes three more zip codes into its service area! 32812, 32839, and 32809!

Due to popular demand, O-Town Compost is expanding its services. Are we still not servicing your zip code? Send us an inquiry to petition for your area! https://o-towncompost.com/contact

We track the number of customers in each area of town and regularly study our routes to see where new customers could be added. 

O-Town Compost's Facts and Figures

Don’t discount O-Town Black Gold!

O-Town Compost Celebrates Its First Ton Diverted!

Thank you to all our awesome subscribers and customers who are committed to food waste recycling in Orlando, Florida !!! It’s an exciting journey to be a waste warrior.

Now Accepting Meat, Fish, and Dairy

For those who wonder what we accept, remember this slogan:

“If it grows, it goes.”

Basically, if it grew out of the ground, we will accept it in our compost program. The website’s FAQ page does a pretty good job at answers any questions you may have, but always feel free to contact us at info@o-towncompost.com.

Things We Do Compost:

• Fruits and veggies

• Coffee grounds, filters, and tea bags

• Paper towels, napkins, and paper plates

• Egg shells

• Pasta and grains

• Meat and bones

• Cheese and other dairy products

Things We Do Not Compost:

• Fruit stickers (please remove from produce before composting)

• Pet waste including excrement or food

• Paper cups

• Kleenex or facial tissues

• Any type of plastics including most bio-degradable plastics

• Pesticide infused products for killing rodents or cockroaches

The law according to O-Town Compost.

Why We Compost in Orlando

At O-Town Compost, we believe in a healthy balance of sustainable growth, which means giving back to the ecosystem what we take.

Orlando was once known for its agricultural presence. Citrus groves stretching as far as the eye could see, and farm land that sprawled from Apoka to Christmas with only a clump of buildings downtown to disrupt the horizon. Heck, I’ve even talked to an UCF alumni who remembers hitching up her horse outside her classrooms. Then, in 1971, Disney decided to open its famous resort and theme park, and the boom started.

Composting is a regenerative practice that allows us to bring back some of that natural habitat that we lost to development. Traditionally, compost replaces nutrients lost in the soil that were taken by the plants that eventually became our food. This fertility loss was replaced with organic compost after every crop cycle, introducing a cocktail of healthy bacteria and nutrients to began building the soil structure once again. It’s no joke when they say “it all starts with the soil.”

At the urban and suburban levels, reverting a small quarter acre lot from lawn to native habitat can invite bees, insects, butterflies, and birds completely altering the space to form a mini-ecosystem. That’s why at O-Town Compost we want to remain small and local to create mini-ecosystems of food waste collection to composting to growing food again. We are helping organizations and individuals change Orlando, pound by pound, into a hybrid between development and nature. A place where the ecosystem isn’t being wiped out, nor are the people being told to leave, but a coexistence. Sign up to start community composting in your neighborhood today!

Guiding Principles of Community Composting:

1. Resources recovered: Waste is reduced; food scraps and other organic materials are diverted from disposal and composted.

2. Locally based and closed loop: Organic materials are a community asset, and are generated and recycled into compost within the same neighborhood or community.

3. Organic materials returned to soils: Compost is used to enhance local soils, support local food production, and conserve natural ecology by improving soil structure and maintaining nutrients, carbon, and soil microorganisms.

4. Community-scaled and diverse: Composting infrastructure is diverse, distributed, and sustainable; systems are scaled to meet the needs of a self-defined community. (O-Town Compost is coming to West Orlando this summer!)

5. Community engaged, empowered, and educated: Compost programming engages and educates the community in food systems thinking, resource stewardship, or community sustainability, while providing solutions that empower individuals, businesses, and institutions to capture organic waste and retain it as a community resource.

6. Community supported: Aligns with community goals (such as healthy soils and healthy people) and is supported by the community it serves. The reverse is true, too; a community composting program supports community social, economic, and environmental well-being.