Commercial Compost Collection Service

Don't let your food scraps waste away in the landfill.

Partner with Queen City Commons to ensure that your organization's food scraps are turned into compost with local farms and gardens. Collection service is easy, and we’re here to help guide you every step of the way.

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Clients We Serve

We service clients big and small, from small coffee shops to larger manufacturers generating thousands of pounds of scraps every week. Our clients include:

  • Restaurants
  • Coffee shops and cafes
  • Food pantries
  • Breweries
  • Grocery stores
  • Food manufacturers
  • Apartment complexes
  • Schools
  • Offices
  • Religious organizations
  • Hospitals
  • Municipalities

Current Customers

turning their food scraps into soil include

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Hear what our current customers have to say:

“Being sure that our “waste” is put to valuable use in our local economy and food systems completes a cycle that I believe everyone should participate in. Queen City Commons makes that an easy dream to accomplish with excellent and ever-expanding service. They have found a way to make composting in a professional environment absolutely zero hassle.”

- Brown Bear Bakery

“Residents love the service, the team at QCC is so easy to work with!”

- The Alto

“With an average of forty food businesses working in our facility monthly, a lot of food waste is produced and it has been so nice to know that we are able to provide an option to our members to help keep some of this waste out of landfills!”

- Incubator Kitchen Collective

“We love QCC’s consistency, clear communication and flexibility. We feel less guilt knowing our scraps are being composted and reused and not ending up in a landfill somewhere. Our clients appreciate our commitment to being more sustainable as well.”

- Eve Floral Co.

“We chose QCC because of the local impact of our composting. Keeping everything close is cool!”

- The Hi-Mark

“Queen City Commons’ service is consistent and more affordable than our previous service provider.”

- Food for the Soul CT

“Queen City Commons is consistent and clean. Transitioning from composting on site to aggregating has freed up a lot of time for our staff.”

- Findlay Market

“The team at QCC was extremely easy to work with and very helpful when we were formulating a plan for neighborhood-wide composting for the residents of Pendleton. Without them the program wouldn't have become a reality!”

- Pendleton Neighborhood Council

“Queen City Commons has been a reliable partner and has made our efforts to reduce landfill waste very convenient. We have really been impressed with the program so far and really appreciate what they are doing!”

- Newport Aquarium

Initial Setup

Setting up compost service with Queen City Commons is easy. An initial review with your team helps determine the appropriate service for your needs.

This can include:

  • A one-week waste audit to help determine your service volume and frequency.
  • A site visit to determine location and coordination of carts.
  • Employee training to get your team on board.
  • At the end of setup, we’ll bring out the appropriate number of carts and you’re ready to get started!

Service Includes

Weekly or every-other-week collection

depending on need

64-gallon collection cart(s)

to collect scraps

Rinsed and lined carts at every collection

to ensure all stays tidy (lined with BPI-certified compostable liners).

Staff trainings as needed

to help orient everyone to what can be composted and why it all matters.

Impact and diversion reports

monthly or annually, as requested.

Responsive and immediate customer service

we’re here to help make this easy and streamlined; let us know how we can help.

Impact and Diversion Reports

Composting your food scraps is a small action with a significant environmental impact. Our monthly impact reports give you precise, actionable data to support your sustainability goals. They can be used to meet the requirements of major certifications focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Your impact reports include:

  • Pounds of food scraps composted
  • The farms and gardens receiving your food scraps
  • Equivalent carbon emissions diverted
  • Equivalent vehicle miles avoided
  • Data suitable for certifications like B Corp, LEED, and other greenhouse-gas–reduction programs

Join the Fight Against Food Waste

Fill out the form below to get in touch with our team and learn more about composting at your place of work.

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FAQs

Commercial service cost depends on a variety of factors, including weekly poundage, how often we collect, and number of carts collected. Reach out to us for a quote customized to your organization’s needs.

We generally service within the I-275 loop. This is not a hard and fast rule, so reach out to us if you’re on the edge and we’ll let you know if you fall within our service area.

Pickups are scheduled based on your volume and facility needs – ranging from every-other-week collections to multiple pickups a week. Most of our customers receive weekly collections.

We want you and your staff to feel empowered about composting! We’ll walk through what we do and don’t accept, review why composting matters, and answer any questions you and your staff might have.

We weigh every cart we collect so we can report to you how many pounds your organization or drop-off location diverted from the landfill. Using the EPA’s Waste Reduction Model, we convert these pounds to carbon emissions saved by composting with Cincinnati-area farms and gardens, instead of being landfilled.

To provide a tangible understanding of what this means, we use the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator to equate these carbon emissions saved to how many passenger vehicles were taken off the road for one year.

Composting is as much about soil health and local food production as it is about waste reduction. Our environmental impact report also includes data on which farms and gardens composted your food scraps – so you can see where exactly your food scraps are being turned into more food around Cincinnati.