This form is for those who wish to use the free drop site for food scraps composting serviced by Bucket Ruckus.  

*If you are already a customer with Bucket Ruckus, please note that there is a different container available for you to use; please contact kelly@bucketruckus.cc for those details.*  

Access to this bin is for residents and not business use.  Once you complete the sign up process, you will be emailed a combination to use to unlock the bin and access (this will periodically change, so be sure you use an email address that you have regular access to).    

This secure drop site has been made possible thanks to a grant submitted by Recycling Connections to the Community Foundation.  Thank you to our funders and community partners who are increasing access to composting in our area! 

Using the bin to compost is as simple as collecting your food scraps at home, transporting them to the site, and dumping them in the yellow bin.  Then we'll pick up the container and make compost with what's in it, alongside the ~2,500 pounds of material we pick up every week.  Cheers to decomposition!  

Why do we lock the bin?  Well, there are a few reasons.

1) We want to be able to track our impact.  Knowing how many households this site serves, and how many people live within each of them, will help us to know just how far these efforts to divert food scraps are going.2) We need to be able to communicate with folks who use this free service to ensure that they understand what can and cannot go in the bin.3) We are a small business with a limited capacity.  Thanks to funding from the Community Foundation, we are able to more widely promote the use of this drop site that we have already been servicing (with no compensation) for four years.  However, there may be a threshold for how much material we can collect through this site.  Keeping it locked will allow us to limit the access (if necessary) until additional resources became available to serve the composting needs of more individuals and families.
4) We unfortunately experience misuse of our services.  This looks like items going into our bins that are not compostable; things like moldy bread still in the bag (that bag is garbage), herbs bundled together with a twist tie (that twist tie is garbage), orange peels with stickers on them (those stickers are garbage), etc.  Twist ties and produce stickers may seem small and like they wouldn't be that big of a problem, but they are our biggest source of contamination.  Because these things are so small, they are hard for us to recover when they get through to our compost site.  A likely future for these items is that they get blown around at the compost site and become litter in the environment.  We need you to participate in preventing this environmental pollution by making sure that everything going into our bins and buckets are acceptable compostable items and that they contain no garbage whatsoever.

Things we compost: all food scraps including meat, dairy, bones, stale granola, moldy bread, fish, fruit, vegetables, and more

Things we DO NOT COMPOST: milk cartons, produce stickers, plastic cutlery, "compostable" or "biodegradable" bowls, plates, cups, bags, and cutlery, twist ties, plastic bags, ketchup packets, and any other kind of garbage or recyclable item.  Scroll down on this page to see our info sheet.

If you would like us to service your home or business with weekly or every-other-week curbside pick up (for a monthly or annual charge), you may sign up on our website here.

If you want to learn about why you should compost your food scraps, visit our website here.