ABOUT COMMUNITY COMPOST CO.
MISSION
Community Compost Company is passionate about doing better for the Earth, and helping others do better, too. To accomplish this, we help communities focus on small steps that add up to big progress, creating a better, healthier future for ourselves, our planet, and generations to come – one compost bin at a time.
vision
Our vision is to live a circular, local economy: where food scraps are diverted from landfills, processed into compost, to improve the health of soil and have a positive impact on climate change.
“We need not wait to see what others do.” –Mahatma Gandhi
OUR STORY
Community Compost Company is a women-owned business based in the Hudson Valley of NY and Northern New Jersey. It was founded by Eileen Banyra in 2013 to lead the change on food waste, climate change, and soil health through regional composting. We apply a systems approach to these issues and are advancing solutions through our services and educational outreach. Valuing local economies and community-based action, we embrace practices that advance the 4 P’s: Planet, People, Place and Profit.
We are committed to producing a quality, regenerative compost to support the region’s health, and we are building a distributed model to meet the growing demand for organics recycling and compost products. We believe in establishing soil hubs throughout the NY metro area to work in conjunction with farm/food hubs, reduce hauling distances, provide local, green jobs, and create soil amendments that can be used in the communities they are produced.
In 2016 we established Hudson Soil Co., our soil products division, through which we sell our finished compost in bags and bulk to garden centers, home gardeners and landscaping companies. For more information visit hudsonsoil.com.
Our goals:
Remove organic material from the “waste stream” and return it to the soil
Improve the health of soil to restore our food quality, farms, and communities
Provide education on the benefits of composting
Reduce food waste through composting - as you separate food scraps from the rest of trash, you are more aware of how much food you throw away
Develop new green jobs to improve the local economy
Build community from the ground up!
THE TABLE-TO-FARM APPROACH
We collect food scraps formerly slated for the landfill and produce compost. Servicing residents, businesses and institutions, we provide an opportunity to ecologically dispose of these materials, while educating on the importance of food waste reduction. We create compost facilities in the Hudson Valley to process the food scraps into compost. Compost is a valuable amendment that restores soil by building health and structure to improve water retention and plant vitality.
