All Services
Residential Composting Services
With residential composting at Block Bins, you can drop off your food scraps at a Block Bin near you, or request one for your neighborhood.
Single family homes
Multi-unit buildings
High-rises
Suburbs
Business & Event Composting Services
With business and event composting at Block Bins, you can request a Block Bin for your business or event venue. Contact us for a custom quote.
Restaurants
Businesses
Property managers
High-volume clients
Shared bins = less cost & less clutter
Only pay for the space you need.
Ideal for city blocks and multi-unit buildings.
Private bins just for you or who you choose
Need all the space? No public access?
Ideal for property managers, suburbs, businesses, and high volume users.
What can we recycle?
Block Bins are dedicated-stream recycling bins. By collecting one material per bin, we enable better recycling options.
Request Block Bins for available and upcoming materials, or contact us to add the recycling services your community needs.
Compostables
Composting food scrap reduces the amount of waste that goes to landfills and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Where do we take compostables?
Our food scrap is composted in an anaerobic digester facility in Chicago IL, which produces renewable energy and fertilizer.
Plastics
We are taking the confusion out of plastic recycling. We can accept any type of plastic (#1-7) that is clean and dry.
Where do we take plastics?
We take plastics to Brightmark, a state-of-the-art plastics renewal facility in Indiana, where it is converted into diesel and raw material for new plastic products.
Electronics
Electronics are a major waste stream that can be inconvenient to dispose of. We make it easy to find a place to recycle your electronics.
Where do we take electronics?
We partner with local electronics recycling facilities to ensure that your electronics are recycled responsibly.
Boxes
Our dedicated box bins allow boxes to be reused instead of recycled, which saves a significant amount of energy and reduces deforestation.
Where do we take boxes?
We partner with cardboard box resellers so they can be used again. We are also investigating ways to get Amazon and large shippers that use cardboard boxes to reclaim and reuse them.
Shipping Materials
Shipping materials can easily be reused instead of disposed of or recycled.
Where do we take shipping materials?
We find local businesses who can accept shipping materials for reuse.