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Residential Compost Pickup · Embudo Valley, NM

Your scraps.
Our hands.
Together, we make good soil.

Weekly or bi-weekly, we pick up your food scraps and leave a fresh, clean bucket at your door. No sorting fuss, no smell in your kitchen — just one small habit that turns into real soil, for all of us.

See pricing How it works
Pay what you can · no one turned away
How it works

Set it out. We handle the rest.

01

Sign up

Pick weekly or bi-weekly pickup and choose what you can pay on our sliding scale.

02

Fill your bucket

Scrape your food scraps into the bucket we provide — no special bags, no sorting rules.

03

We swap it

On your scheduled day, we pick up your full bucket and leave a fresh, clean one in its place.

04

Compost comes home

Weekly customers get a 3 cu ft bag of finished compost each spring and fall; bi-weekly customers get one each fall.

Our weekly pickup routes

Map of our weekly pickup routes: Mondays green route, Tuesdays red route, Wednesdays blue route
Pricing

Pay what you can, on purpose.

Other haulers in the region start around $45/month for weekly service and $35/month for bi-weekly. We use a sliding scale instead — because compost should be for every household.

Weekly pickup

market rate elsewhere: ~$45/mo
  • Bucket swapped every week, on your scheduled day
  • One 3 cu ft bag of finished compost delivered each spring and fall

Bi-weekly pickup

market rate elsewhere: ~$35/mo
  • Bucket swapped every other week, on your scheduled day
  • One 3 cu ft bag of finished compost delivered each fall
No one is ever turned away for lack of payment.
Want yard waste picked up too? Contact us — it's available for a one-time fee.

Why sliding scale?

This is solidarity pricing, not charity. Neighbors with more room in their budget pay more, so neighbors with less can still get full service. It's a small, direct way of narrowing the wealth gap.

🪣 More room to give

  • Basic needs are comfortably covered
  • Steady income, savings, reliable housing & car
  • Room for extras like dining out or travel
Consider paying at or above the top of the scale

🪣 Right in the middle

  • Basic needs are met, but it takes some care
  • Little or no savings cushion
  • Occasional extras, but you watch your budget
Consider paying somewhere in the middle

🪣 Less room right now

  • Meeting basic needs is a real stretch
  • Unstable income, housing, or transportation
  • Little to no room for extras
Pay what feels doable — even $0. You are always welcome.
Why compost with us

Small bucket, big difference.

Food scraps thrown in the trash don't just disappear — here's what changes when they come to us instead.

Less methane, less carbon

Food waste sealed in a landfill breaks down without oxygen and releases methane. Composting breaks it down aerobically instead, cutting methane and helping sequester carbon.

Fewer critters at your door

Raccoons and bears follow their noses to unsecured trash. Weekly pickup means less lingering food waste around your property to draw them in.

Water-holding, living soil

Finished compost holds water longer and feeds the microbes, worms, and fungi that keep soil alive — building real, lasting soil health.

Cleaner air

Diverting organics from landfills reduces the gases and airborne particulates landfills produce — a small, cumulative win for local air quality.

Our impact
134–309
metric tons of food waste we could keep out of the landfill each year, if families across the Embudo Valley join in.

*This number is an estimate. We used how many people live in the Embudo Valley, along with average food waste numbers from the state and the country, since there's no local count yet. It's not exact, but it's real — and it grows every time a new family joins us.