Let us help you keep your food waste out of the landfill and put it back into the food web!
Our residential composting program serves the Greater Athens Area, including Clarke, Oconee, Madison and Oglethorpe Counties.
Here at Awesome Possum we believe that we can help people change the way they think about food waste. We believe that we can move beyond the simple necessity of reducing our impact on the planet towards actually helping to rebuild and restore the health of the earth within our communities. We believe that we can combine the power of ancient and new technologies to eliminate waste, repair the soil, and even help cleanse the air. That’s why we are always experimenting with new ways to bring the science of composting out of the Bronze Age and into the new millennium.
People all over the world are rising to the challenge of eliminating food waste from landfills, and for good reason: the carbon footprint of food waste accounts for 8% of all global emissions of greenhouse gases!
It can be hard to balance the need to take an active hand in reducing your household’s discarded food waste with the demands of day-to-day living. You may not have the garden space or time to set up a composting site of your own. Apartment living can make you feel like there is no realistic way to participate in the growing movement of food waste diversion.
That’s where we come in! Awesome Possum Composting offers inexpensive curbside service to the Greater Athens Area. We collect all your kitchen scraps weekly and keep your discarded food waste out of the landfill. We can ensure that even materials that are traditionally considered “difficult to compost” can be returned to the food web and used to create rich, living soil.
Are you ready to join us in the fight against food waste?
Old leftovers
Fruit rinds, cores, vegetable cuttings
Meat and bones
Eggs
Dairy
Paper plates, paper towels, and napkins
Certified Compostable cutlery
Coffee grounds, filters, and tea bags
Garden trimmings and flowers
Inorganic materials
Plastic packaging or wrappers
Aluminum cans or other metal
Soaps, detergents, chemicals
Animal poop
Delivery of 1 Awesome Possum Composting Bucket
Weekly curbside pickup service and included bucket liner
+$2.00/month for each extra 4-gallon bucket.
Membership charged monthly.
On the week following your subscription you will receive a 4-gallon Awesome Possum Composting Bucket which will include detailed instructions and will notify you of your weekly scheduled pickup day.
Just fill the lined bucket with your food waste, leftovers and kitchen scraps and put it out on the curb the night before or before 8am on your scheduled pickup day!
SELECT NUMBER OF DESIRED EXTRA BUCKETS
$20 Per Month
(+$2.00/month per bucket)
Delivery of 1 Awesome Possum Composting Bucket
Weekly curbside pickup service and included bucket liner
10% savings on service! An additional bucket as needed with no additional charge! Membership charged yearly.
On the week following your subscription you will receive a 4-gallon Awesome Possum Composting Bucket which will include detailed instructions and will notify you of your weekly scheduled pickup day.
Just fill the lined bucket with your food waste, leftovers and kitchen scraps and put it out on the curb the night before or before 8am on your scheduled pickup day!
$216 for a whole year.
An easily scalable composting solution for offices and businesses with a small to moderate amount compostables.
Weekly pickup only. Service includes bucket cleaning and relining on site.
Supporting Awesome Possum means supporting LGBT entrepreneurship in Georgia! Our hiring and partnership practices focus on supporting marginalized populations in Athens, Georgia.
We believe that composting doesn’t need to be stuck in the Bronze Age. We are committed to integrating and even pioneering state-of-the-art methods of food waste disposal, carbon biosequestration and soil improvement.
We are are committed to rectifying the dirty secrets of modern day composting: waste, greenhouse gas emissions and a reliance on facilities that use uncompensated prison labor. We are networking with local and state groups and authorities to change the way composting can improve our homes, gardens and communities.
Bonnie S.
Mama Possum
Seasoned compost hauler, autodidact microorganism farmer and established local weirdo, Bonnie is proud to captain the helm of Awesome Possum Composting. Bonnie knows that enterprise must hold to the principles of social justice, environmental custodianship, and community responsibility.
