Our mission is to make composting available, easy and affordable for everyone in our community
To date, Lone Tree Composting has collectively diverted over 250,000 lbs of organic waste from Colorado's landfills! In 2022, we expect to double this amount. Thank you to our amazing customers for making this positive impact!
We, David and Jasmine, moved to Lone Tree after relocating from Chicago in early 2019. We were thrilled to move to such an amazing community to lay roots but were disappointed that there wasn’t an organic recycling service in our area. So we decided to change that.
Lone Tree Composting was born in January 2020 to provide residents in Lone Tree an organic recycling option which is not currently offered by the City of Lone Tree. We quickly expanded after receiving questions from surrounding areas like Highlands Ranch, Parker, Centennial, etc. as well. We are very passionate about giving residents an alternative in how they dispose of their organic waste in a sustainable way.
Each week, we collect your organic waste (compostables) and divert them from the landfill. We have different container size options depending on your household needs with the option to include 1 bag of yard waste each week. We also offer one time orders: bulk yard waste removal and compost soil deliveries.
Composting is something we can all do to make a positive, tangible environmental impact in our community. Our soil health, our local agriculture and food, our water quality, climate, even our economy, all benefit.
Since we commercially composts, we can accept a larger scope of compostables. So even if you are composting at home, there are still additional waste you can send to the commercial facility and diverting those from the landfill such as like soiled paper/cartons, meat and bones, dairy, and greasy cardboard.
On average, nearly half of what the average American throws in the garbage could be recycled back to the Earth as nutritious compost soil, but if not composted, it ends up in a landfill. In fact, organic material in the landfill contributes to the single largest direct human source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Moreover, studies have shown food waste is responsible for an estimated 8% of all global emissions!
During normal decomposition, like in a compost, organic matter is eaten and digested by microbes. Normally, these microbes produce carbon dioxide as a waste byproduct. But if no oxygen is available, like in the anaerobic environment of landfills, they produce methane instead. Methane’s greenhouse gas effect on the atmosphere is 21 times greater than carbon dioxide’s over a 100-year period.
Lone Tree Composting has received an outpour of support by our community. We are very grateful to all of you that have signed up for our service. I continuously witness people "rethinking their garbage" and start their composting journey - which has significant positive impact to our environment.
If you are passionate about sustainability and the environment and are interested in learning more about organic recycling, Lone Tree Composting is for you. Send us an email to get started.
We can all do our part to reduce the amount of waste sent to the landfill, and instead, give it back to the Earth.
