Organics Recycling Service
Who We Serve
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Restaurants & Catering
Businesses & Office Buildings
Hospitals & Nursing Homes
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Food Manufacturers
Grocery Stores
Day Care Facilities
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Attractions & Entertainment
Schools & Universities
Hotels & Resorts
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Industrial Manufacturing
Distribution Centers
Cannabis Facilities
how it works
Total Organics Recycling makes food scrap composting easy and can get you on the path to zero waste!
We offer 64 or 35 gallon totes for food scrap collection and pick up the filled totes on scheduled days agreed upon with you. Your totes are dumped and rinsed on-site and then replaced.
By partnering with Total Organics Recycling, you can divert food waste from the landfill and potentially lower your current trash costs as well!
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Pricing
One of our trained composting specialists will come out to determine the number of totes and pick-ups your business will need. If you determine you need additional totes or need to change your scheduled pick-up, you can do this at any time with a phone call or through our website.
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Training
A Total Organics Recycling representative will come out and train your staff on what is compostable and what is not, as well as, provide you with educational posters and stickers. We can do as many training sessions as needed during your initial set-up.
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Logistics
Your yellow totes will be delivered, ready to be filled with organic material. We will also provide composting posters and stickers. At your scheduled pick-up, we will dump and rinse your totes on site. Your new totes will be ready for use to repeat the cycle! Liners are not required, just fill the tote.
Personal Reports Available for
Community Impact
At the end of each month, we can provide you with a specialized report* informing you how much “waste” your business diverted from the landfill. *Upon request only.
our process​
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Total Organic Recycling collects organic material, then what? Once we pick your discarded organics, they are delivered to a St. Louis Composting commercial compost facility, where they are broken down into a nutrient-rich soil supplement in a process called composting.
Compost is organic matter that has been broken down through aerobic decomposition into a dark, humus-rich material teeming with beneficial organisms – a critical component of a “complete” soil. Complete soil also contains key mineral factions (iron, nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium) that promote healthy plant growth and maturation.
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Composting is nature’s way of recycling. For thousands of years, ecosystems have survived and thrived by self-producing compost from spent plant material. Compost contains essential nutrients and moisture that help plants grow by:
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improving the structure, drainage, and water-holding capacity of soil
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encouraging deep-rooting
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helping to suppress plant disease and promotes healthier growth
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reducing erosion
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reduces waste and combats climate change through recycling outside of landfills
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