Carter's Compost | Compost Services | Traverse City, MI, USA

WHO WE ARE

Traverse City's Collection and Composting Service

We are a compost collection and delivery service that hauls food scraps from your kitchen or business to local composting sites.

Once the scraps have evolved into finished compost, it is returned to local soils through subscribers who have their scraps picked up by Carter's Compost, donations to community gardens and sales for use in yards, pots, gardens, beds and farms.

At Carter's Compost, we believe that the resilience and beauty of our community is inseparable from the health of the land we live on. Transforming our food scraps into fertile compost is one small way we can collectively nurture the land in the midst of global environmental crisis, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and regenerate Michigan soils.

WASTE DIVERSION

Our pickups and drop-offs divert your food scraps from traditional landfills to our piles.

COLLECTION SERVICE

Collections are combined with other organic materials such as leaves and wood chips, and with the help of some wormie friends, let nature take the wheel.

NUTRIENT-RICH COMPOST

After several months the compost is ready to go into gardens, beds and pots, providing plants with a natural, nourishing soil.

EDUCATION

Follow us on social media to see events hosted by Carter's, as well as general information on composting and it's benefits.

HOW IT WORKS

Kitchen Scrap Pickup and Drop-off:

Carter's makes it easy to start giving your "waste" a 2nd (or 3rd!) life. With a subscription, there is so much to look forward to:

We connect you with a clean bucket for your house or collection cart for your business.
You skip the trash and put kitchen scraps right in the bucket or cart.
We swap out your bucket/cart with a clean bucket/cart every week, or you dump it at a drop-off site.
Your scraps are nurtured in our piles and go from unwanted scraps to lush compost.
Residential subscribers have the option to get a full bag of compost 2x per year!

Finished Compost:

Full bags of nutritious compost are available for sale for use in your garden, pots, beds, lawns, hanging plants, boxes, farms... you get the point! This soil amendment nourishes the soil so that your plants flourish, maintain moisture and promote aeration.