Compost Queen Launches Food Waste Composting Pilot Program in Partnership with City of Fort Collins

USCC Member Compost Queen is launching a one-year food waste composting pilot program in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. Through collaboration with the City of Fort Collins and funding through the City’s Disposable Bag Ordinance Fees, the program will be able to provide curbside food waste collection for up to 600 residents and 20 businesses.
 
Compost Queen works with local farmers to operate small-scale, distributed composting sites, ensuring that the nutrients from locally generated organic waste can return to local soils. The organization also hosts biannual compost pickup days where program participants are invited to their sites to collect compost generated from their organic waste. Compost Queen has been operating in the Fort Collins area since 2018, and this deep experience of the composting landscape in the area will set the program up for success.
 
According to the press release from Compost Queen and the City of Fort Collins, the program is expected to divert 165 additional tons of organic waste from the landfill, preventing more than 100 metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions.
 
Enrollment for the program opened on September 25th and will remain open until the program reaches capacity. Fort Collins residents can visit Compost Queen’s website to enroll.