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Circle Compost | Food Scraps, Leaf Pickup, Composting in PhiladelphiaCircle Compost | Food Scraps, Leaf Pickup, Composting in Philadelphia
  • About
  • HOME FREE TRIAL
  • COMMERCIAL
  • XMAS TREE RECYCLING
  • Composting Pickup
    • Households
    • Businesses
    • Apartment Buildings
    • Leaf Pickup
    • Compostables List
  • Shop
    • *HOME COMPOSTING FREE TRIAL*
    • Rabbit Recycling
    • Bag of Compost (5 Gallon)
    • Christmas Tree Recycling
    • Pumpkin Composting
    • Lawn Waste
    • Gift Certificates
  • Customer Service
    • Contact Us (Existing Customers)
    • Free Compost Request
    • Report a Pickup Issue
    • Bucket Issue
    • Account Login
  • Contact Us
  • Careers

Hyper-local Composting & Recycling Service in Philadelphia

Commercial Composting Household Composting Free Trial
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Hyper-local Composting & Recycling Service in Philadelphia

Commercial Composting Household Composting Free Trial
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Hyper-local Composting & Recycling Service in Philadelphia

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How It Works

Step 1: You Collect

We provide you with your choice of a 5 gallon or 2 gallon bucket. We offer compostable paper liners for 5g buckets and helpful green tips.

Step 2: We Pick Up

Our professional composting team bikes or drives to collect your scraps weekly or every other week.

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Step 3: Philly Benefits

Your waste gets composted locally and helps grow healthy soil. You can feel good about your decision to compost!

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Our Services

For Households

For Households

  • Free home trial
  • Weekly or every other week food scrap collection
  • Clean, odor-free pickup process
  • Finished compost return options available
  • Recycling in partnership with Rabbit Recycling
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For Businesses

For Businesses

  • Sustainable waste pickup for restaurants, cafes, offices & more
  • Customized composting plans
  • Reporting for sustainability goals
  • Recycling in partnership with Rabbit Recycling
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Local Customer Testimonials

  • “The service is super affordable, worth every penny, and genuinely contributes to a better Philadelphia, and world, for us all. Also, their customer service is absolutely impeccable”

    John, South Philly
  • “Was great having the subscription in the city. Feels so much better to not have food trash stinking up my trash, and to get the soil each spring for my potting.”

    Nick, Kensington
  • “I couldn’t be happier to have found Circle Compost! Between weekly pickup, Christmas tree and pumpkin pickup, and fresh compost delivery in the spring, it has been a true pleasure being a Circle Compost customer. Their customer portal is easy to navigate if there’s a week you won’t be around for pickup. They truly make it SO easy to be more eco-conscious.”

    Jamie, University City
  • “Circle compost is a great resource for trying to responsibly dispose of food waste. They’re affordable, reliable, and always responded to any questions I had.”

    Russell, South Philly
  • “We couldn’t have been happier with this service over the last 6+ years! Circle is responsive, on time, and very flexible when our different scheduling needs come up. We’ve taken advantage of tree pickup and the soil ‘payback’ is the healthiest soil we’ve ever used! Really great service that we’d highly recommend.”

    Dan, Fishtown

Why Philly Loves Circle Compost

Woman Owned & Locally Owned

We are a woman-owned business in Philadelphia, committed to building a greener city. Since 2016, we’ve been independently serving neighborhoods in Philly with convenient composting services.

Simple & Intuitive Online Portal

We make composting simple and enriching. Our easy-to-use app has flexible scheduling options, sustainability stats tracking, and more to have fun with composting and being greener.

Five-star & Reliable Service

Composting pickups on your scheduled neighborhood day with proactive and responsive communication. And, you can skip service or contact us for an alternative pickup day.

Efficient & Eco-friendly Solution

Composting with a local business promotes sustainability – right here in Philadelphia. And, many of our pickups are done on bicycle, minimizing emissions and maximizing sustainability.

Community Focused & Inspired

By turning scraps into soil, we help strengthen Philly’s food systems, lower our carbon footprint, and promote a cleaner world. We directly support local gardens, schools, and urban farms with our compost.

Philadelphia Neighborhoods We Service

Bella Vista  •  Brewerytown  •  Chinatown  •  Fairmount  •  Fishtown  •  Fitler Square  •  Grays Ferry  •  Kensington  •  Manayunk  •  Mount Airy  •  Northern Liberties  •  Old City  •  Point Breeze  •  Queen Village  •  Rittenhouse Square  •  Roxborough  •  Society Hill  •  South Philly  •  Southwest Philly  •  University City  •  West Philly

Ready to Close the Loop?

Join thousands of Philadelphia households and businesses reducing waste and growing healthy soil.

Start Composting And Recycling Today

Contact Info

Phone: 267-388-1493
Email: info@circlecompost.com
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When the compost is hotter than your morning coffe When the compost is hotter than your morning coffee! ☕🔥

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By now the announcement is all over our socials th By now the announcement is all over our socials thanks to our friends @gridmagazine and @greenphilly.news ... but here it is directly from us: we are beyond excited to merge our business into @bennettcompost as of January 1, 2026.

When we launched Circle Compost in 2016, composting in Philadelphia looked a lot different than it does today. We had zero desire for Bennett customers to change over from their service to ours- the idea was and still is to get more people composting. In the 9+ years since those early days, we grew from servicing just 1 household and 1 coffee shop to composting for more than 2,500 homes and 50+ businesses. We are so humbled and proud of what Circle became, and grateful to all of our customers and partners who embraced us and fueled our growth.

Meanwhile, over those same 9+ years, Tim Bennett and Jen Mastalerz led Bennett Compost to become a national model for what urban composting can be. They partnered with city agencies to create and run Philly's first ever permitted composting site, added a 2nd permitted site, and are working on more. They grew to servicing over 6,000 homes and 150+ businesses.

Though technically we've been competing with them since our inception, we never saw things that way- our only true competitors are landfills and incinerators. In fact, we've collaborated with Bennett in multiple ways over the years, and a few months ago, for business and personal reasons, we approached them with the idea to merge our business into theirs. We are honored that they wanted to make it happen, and now that it's official, we are so excited to start working together toward our shared mission starting in just a few weeks.

Thank you thank you thank you to all of our customers and friends of Circle- none of this is possible without you.

-Dave and Michele, Circle Compost co-founders 

📷 taken on the roof of @buildingbok in summer 2022, at one of many events over the years where we stood side by side
Got extra leaves sitting on cement that could go b Got extra leaves sitting on cement that could go back into the soil instead? 🍁 🍂

You don’t have to be a customer to order a pickup! However for our 5gallon customers we will pickup 8 leaf bags per year for no extra charge.
 
Not a food scrap pickup service subscriber? If you need 1 – 5 bags of leaves picked up, please go to circlecompost.com/leaf-pickup/ and follow the steps from there to enter your address, check our pricing, etc.

We just ask that you give us a heads up in advance if you want to put them out, so we are prepared. Sometimes we take them on a different day than your food scrap pickup due to limited space.

We also do large scale leaf pickups like the one shown here. If you organize a leaf clean up on your block, it doesn’t cost a lot if people on the block chip in to have us pick ‘em up and compost ‘em. DM us or email info@circlecompost.com for details!
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  • About
  • HOME FREE TRIAL
  • COMMERCIAL
  • XMAS TREE RECYCLING
  • Composting Pickup
    • Households
    • Businesses
    • Apartment Buildings
    • Leaf Pickup
    • Compostables List
  • Shop
    • *HOME COMPOSTING FREE TRIAL*
    • Rabbit Recycling
    • Bag of Compost (5 Gallon)
    • Christmas Tree Recycling
    • Pumpkin Composting
    • Lawn Waste
    • Gift Certificates
  • Customer Service
    • Contact Us (Existing Customers)
    • Free Compost Request
    • Report a Pickup Issue
    • Bucket Issue
    • Account Login
  • Contact Us
  • Careers