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Portland Composts!
About Portland Composts!
Helping Portland food businesses compost food waste & food soiled paper
How To Do It
Compost information, resources and FAQs for new and participating businesses
Resources and Tools
Posters, fact sheets and more
Portland Composts! Participants
These companies are composting their food waste!
Food Composting Research, Publications
Reports and documents related to the commercial compost program

Portland Composts!

 

Businesses Dig It

 

A partnership of Metro and the Portland Office of Sustainable Development.

Portland Composts Green Roll Cart

Businesses in the City of Portland can contract with waste haulers to collect food waste and food-soiled paper for composting.

 

The City of Portland provides technical assistance, training for your employees, marketing materials and more.

 

 

Were you looking for residential composting information?   Visit Metro's website for backyard composting

 

 

How to get started

 

Frequently asked questions

 

Donate food that is still edible: Metro's Fork It Over program

Portland Composts! Spotlight
Oregon Health & Science University -
nancy Oberschmidt with food compactor
Under the leadership of Nancy Oberschmidt, a member of the Portland/Multnomah County Food Policy Council, OHSU became the first large health care system in the area to adopt composting.
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