Save money

By diverting food scraps, you can save money on State and County solid waste management taxes and fees.

Benefits can include:

• Getting a smaller garbage dumpster
• Having your dumpster picked up less often

Help the environment

• Each year, Minneapolis restaurants generate 35,000 tons or 30% of the city’s food waste.
• Composting food scraps helps return nutrients to the soil. This means residents and farmers can grow healthier, more nutritious food.

What to compost

Commercial composting allows a business to divert food and items from the trash, including:

• Wasted food
• Food scraps
• Napkins and paper towels
• Certified compostable to-go containers
• Wooden chopsticks and stir sticks

See accepted organics

How to start composting

• Hennepin County explains how to set up a composting program for your business.
• Most restaurants must divert food waste from the trash.

See Hennepin County organics recycling for businesses