Fresh Bins! CoCo swaps your totes with washed totes upon pickup! As your custodians, we strive to keep composting as clean and pest-free as possible. By swapping your totes we mitigate any odors or flies associated with your waste.
Contamination: We truly care about the quality of the compost we create and want to ensure it is usable soil that can be returned to the earth. This means we heavily focus on minimizing contamination through:
- Transparency: Opposed to dump trucks, we use bins and buckets. This strategic decision allows us to see more of the compost in each bin as they are individually dumped, instead of getting buried in a dump truck black hole!
- Manual sorting: Our compost stream is manually sorted through at multiple levels. First, drivers sort any large contaminants out as they pick up each bin. Then, as the bin is dumped into a rolloff (larger container) at our facility, the stream is checked again for large contaminants.
- Education: We onboard each commercial account with a Compost 101 Training and offer refresher 101s as needed. 101s train employees on composting best practices and processes for minimizing contamination.
- Signage: CoCo provides every commercial account with "What is Compostable" signage.
- Feedback reports: As we service our commercial accounts, we take note of what the stream looks like—we let you know if we see contamination, what the contaminants were, and how to best minimize it moving forward!
- Green Teams: In certain cases, we suggest Green Teams be implemented and offer guidance on how to do so.
Spring Soil Dividends: Free spring compost soil dividend for all employees at every commercial account!
Employee Discounts: Discounted residential composting memberships for all commercial account employees!
Compostable Packaging: Yes! We do still accept certified compostable packaging.
Reporting: Our customer portal allows you to see a dashboard full of your real-time waste diversion statistics, easy numbers to reference as you work on building your sustainability initiatives. Metrics include: pounds diverted from landfill, seedlings planted (in greenhouse gas equivalency), miles offset, and gallons of gas offset.