A Worker-Owned, Bicycle-Powered, Curbside Compost Pick-Up Service in Arcata, CA.
We work to keep food waste out of the landfill and turn it into a natural resource for our community.
A Worker-Owned, Bicycle-Powered, Curbside Compost Pick-Up Service in Arcata, CA.
We work to keep food waste out of the landfill and turn it into a natural resource for our community.
Keep organic waste out of Humboldt County landfills, reducing harmful methane emissions.
Transform food scraps into nutrient-rich compost that builds healthy Humboldt soil.
Support local gardens, farms, and community food systems by returning nutrients back to the land.
Power a bicycle-based compost collection service that reduces vehicle emissions in our neighborhoods.
Provide access to high-quality, locally produced compost.
Strengthen a worker-owned cooperative rooted in workplace democracy, sustainability, and community care.
Composting with us helps keep valuable food scraps out of the landfill and turns them into something meaningful for our community and local soil.
Composting with Full Cycle
Composting with us helps keep valuable food scraps out of the landfill and turns them into something meaningful for our community and local soil.
Composting with Full Cycle
Keep organic waste out of Humboldt County landfills, reducing harmful methane emissions.
Transform food scraps into nutrient-rich compost that builds healthy Humboldt soil.
Support local gardens, farms, and community food systems by returning nutrients back to the land.
Power a bicycle-based compost collection service that reduces vehicle emissions in our neighborhoods.
Provide access to high-quality, locally produced compost.
Strengthen a worker-owned cooperative rooted in workplace democracy, sustainability, and community care.
“There isn’t a food waste service quite like Full Cycle Compost. When food scraps go to the landfill, they break down without oxygen and release methane — a powerful greenhouse gas. But when we compost them, those nutrients become rich soil that feeds plants and helps grow more food for our community. It’s a closed-loop system that helps reduce emissions and return something valuable back to the earth.”
– Monika - Worker Owner of Full Cycle Compost
Here’s how it works:
Sign up for service in your neighborhood service zone.
We provide you with a 5-gallon bucket with a lid for your food waste and other compostables.
Each week, our riders arrive by e-bike equipped with a trailer to empty your bucket.
Your scraps are delivered to one of our community partner compost sites, where they are turned into nutrient-rich compost.
That finished compost then becomes available to our local community for gardens and soil building.
Kitchen scraps → compost → healthy local soil.
That’s the full cycle, realized.
If you live just outside of our service area, send us an email with your address requesting “out of service area pick-up.”We’re often able to work with nearby households on an individual basis.
If you live further outside our service area, we also offer a community drop-off location at Jacoby Creek Land Trust.
If you live within one of the zones in our service area, you can get started composting with weekly residential curbside pickup. Check the map and zoom in to see if you're on our route.
This is where we roll…
This is where we roll…
If you live within one of our service zones, you can start composting with weekly residential curbside pick-up.
Zoom in on the map to see if you're on our route.
Here’s how it works:
We provide a 5-gallon bucket with a lid for food scraps and compostables.
Each week, our riders arrive by e-bike with a trailer to empty your bucket.
Your scraps go to a local community compost site where they become nutrient-rich compost for our region.
Kitchen scraps → compost → healthy local soil.
That’s the full cycle, realized.If you live just outside our service area, email us with your address and request “out of service area pick-up.
If you’re further away, we also offer a drop-off location at Jacoby Creek Land Trust.
Income Equity Rate
$4.50 a week - Subsidized for qualified customers
Choose Your Service Here
Economy Rate
$6.75 a week - Compost for the people
Economy Rate
$6.75 a week - Compost for the people
Compost Drop-Off
$4.25 a week - Bring your food waste to one of our community gardens.
Bulk Rate Service
Our bulk-rate compost service is designed for businesses, schools, and multi-unit properties looking for reliable, weekly pick-up.
Pay-It-Forward Rate
$9.50 a week - $2.25 goes to Income Equity Fund
Pay-It-Forward Rate
$9.50 a week - $2.25 goes to Income Equity Fund
Donations & Gift Cards
Your DONATION will subsidize our Income Equity Fund, making it possible for qualified low-income customers to participate.
Compost Drop-Off
$4.25 a week - Bring your food waste to our community garden
Income Equity Rate
$4.50 a week - Subsidized for qualified customers
Bulk Rate Service
Designed for businesses, schools, and multi-unit properties looking for reliable, weekly pick-up.
Gift Cards
Can be used to buy our Soil Booster Compost, or to sign up for service.
Buy Compost
Full Cycle ‘Soil Booster’ Compost
Our locally made, small batch, hand-turned compost is unlike any commercially produced compost, because it is made with local food waste that is diverted from the landfill with BIKES!
Buying our Hyper Local ‘Soil Booster’ Compost helps support our efforts to keep food waste out of landfills, and supports our local community.
“We’re interested in creating a future where everybody is composting in some way. Whether that’s because we’re able to pick it up, or because we are able to figure out what works for them in their own backyard. If you see us, give us a shout out.”
– Skye Henterly - Worker Owner of Full Cycle Compost
Our Community Garden Composting Sites and Partners
The Redwood Coast Montessori Community Garden was designed by the students of Redwood Coast Montessori. They have dedicated hours of planning, building, and planting into this community garden, and even helped design Full Cycle Compost’s compost bins! The community garden is located in Arcata and is now open for the public to rent garden beds.
The Bayside Park Farm is a 3-acre vegetable and fruit farm located in the City of Arcata’s Bayside Park. The farm is dedicated to cultivating connections between our community and sustainable agriculture. Full Cycle Compost brings food waste to compost in the Earth Tubs located here.
Summer Farm Shares
(June to October)
Share Fee: $520
Supporting sustainable agriculture in the Jacoby Creek watershed is a major tenet of the trust’s mission. Access to local meat, vegetables, and fruit grown without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents strengthens food security in our community and demonstrates the value of working lands as part of a sound land conservation strategy. Farm shares are available. For more info contact jacobycreeklt@gmail.com.
California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy – also known as SB 1383 – takes effect in January, 2022 and will require city and county jurisdictions to compost their green waste, such as food scraps and yard debris, in an effort to reduce the release of greenhouse gasses emitted by organic materials decomposing in our landfills.