Residential | NewTerra Compost

Curbside Composting

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Step 1

Fill your bucket with all food including meat, dairy, and BPI certified compostable products.

Step 2

Set your bucket out each week to be collected, weighed, and swapped for a new, clean bucket and liner.

Step 3

Every Spring & Fall receive or donate 10 gallons of finished compost!

Included with Curbside Membership

$30/Month
Clean Bucket/Liner every service
Receive or Donate 10 gallons of Finished Compost Every Spring/Fall

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Kiosk Composting

Step 1

Fill your bucket with all food including meat, dairy, and BPI certified compostable products.

Step 2

Empty your bucket into our Kiosks located all over the Chattanooga area using the code on your account dashboard.

Step 3

Every Spring & Fall receive or donate 10 gallons of finished compost!

Included with Kiosk Membership

$15/Month or $145/year
24/7 access to most kiosks.
Receive or Donate 10 gallons of Finished Compost Every Spring/Fall

Visit at Kiosks your convenience
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At Home Composting

Oftentimes, sustainability efforts begin with small, everyday lifestyle changes. These include steps you can take at home to reduce energy usage and overall waste. An easy and now viable option to start with is composting.

Nearly 30 percent of all waste sent to landfills in the U.S. can be composted. Composting household organic waste can help eliminate a large portion of the trash we dispose of every year.

At NewTerra Compost, we aim to bring composting solutions right to your doorstep! Our residential composting services include curbside composting in Chattanooga. This simplified process saves you the effort of home composting, and gets you more great compost than you would produce at home.

If you are interested in composting in Chattanooga, consider our curbside compost collection. We provide you with a composting bucket for your home, you fill it with food scraps and compostable material, and we come to collect and replace it every week. Our members will also receive fresh compost every spring and fall as a part of the program.

Alternatively, NewTerra provides compost drop off kiosks throughout Chattanooga Hixson, Red Bank, Signal Mountain, Ooltewah, Cleveland, and Dade County GA!

As Chattanooga’s only local composting company, NewTerra Compost aims to provide sustainable options for getting rid of waste. We care about our community, and believe that composting should be accessible to all.

Composting Misconceptions

Composting Smells Bad

Our curbside composting comes by weekly to take your food scraps and give you a new, clean bucket. A fresh bucket every week doesn’t have time to develop a bad smell. Even in the summer, just leaving the bucket in your garage or shady spot will avoid all smells. And the lid seals tightly so you have nothing to worry about.

Composting Attracts Bugs and Pests

If your compost bin begins to attract worms or bugs, you may not be emptying it frequently enough. While worms are a good sign that your compost efforts are working, it takes quite a bit of time for them to appear. Luckily, with our curbside compost pick up, we collect your food scraps every week so there should be no worry of worms or other bugs.

Dairy Can’t Be Composted

Dairy and meats are often labeled as food that you cannot compost. If you are handing over your food waste to a composting service, chances are they have the capabilities to process foods that are unable to be handled or broken down at home or in your backyard. At NewTerra Compost, we accept all food types including dairy, meats and even bones!

Composting Takes Too Much Time

At home composting requires a level of knowledge and practice. With us, you can skip the Composting food waste for beginner articles and videos because you just need to fill a bucket. Ratios of green and browns don’t impact you, we then take care of the composting process ourselves, returning you with rich, finished bags of compost every spring and fall.

Composting Takes Up Space

Backyard composting can take up lots of space in your yard and around your home. With NewTerra’s curbside composting pick up, we provide you with a 5 gallon bucket that takes up barely any space at all. This bucket is collected and replaced weekly, so you are never overwhelmed by the amount of food scraps in or around your home.