Compost Collective is passionate about creating accessible composting for everyone in the Kansas City Metro. It has always been our goal to create an option that is available to anyone in the area, even if we’re not currently offering curbside collection in your neighborhood or a full service option isn’t in your monthly budget. Introducing the CCKC Bin Swap program! 

Bin swapping puts you in charge of when and how much you compost. You simply buy your compost bucket, fill it at your own pace, then bring it to our bin swap location whenever it is full to swap it for a clean bucket to take home and fill up again! That means you don’t have to commit to a weekly or bi-monthly service, and only pay a nominal fee when you need to swap your bin. 

This is a great option if you don’t have the room to add a composting service to your monthly budget, but would like to have the ability to compost occasionally. Or for those of you not ready to commit to the full curbside service yet, now there’s a way to get your toes wet. 

Or maybe you already do your own backyard composting, now you can compost items that can only decompose in commercial composting environments! You can leisurely fill your bin with meat products or compostable restaurant take out containers that you would otherwise have had to put in the trash. 

Here’s how it will work: 

• Purchase a new 4 gallon square bucket for $10 from Compost Collective KC
• Take it home and fill it at whatever pace you need. 
• When you are ready, come to the Brookside Farmers Market on Saturdays to swap your bucket of food waste for a clean one to take home and refill. 
• Each swap costs $6, so you can come as frequently or infrequently as you’d like! 

This new program will start on June 6th at the Brookside Farmers Market, find our booth there to purchase your bucket and get composting with us!