Finished Compost Cooperative

Our Worker-Owned Compost Cooperative will be established in 2024. It will distribute finished compost and fertility products for home gardens, commercial landscaping, food growing projects, and farms.

For more information about worker cooperatives or to join a learning cohort in the future, please email info@greenerachicago.org.

Why use compost?

Using finished compost has many environmental and community benefits, including:

  • Improving soil health by adding vital nutrients, therefore improving crop yields

  • Replacing synthetic nitrogen and/or mined minerals, many of which come from Russia or China and have a high carbon footprint

  • Increasing water absorption within the soil, which reduces erosion and mitigates flooding

  • Sequestering carbon from the air through adding microbes back to depleted soil, and through the vegetation it supports

  • Supporting a circular economy for food waste and providing local jobs

Landfills are estimated to be at full capacity in just 10 years.

Let’s prevent this disaster and create a new destiny.