Join the Bristol Living Compost Project
Turn Your Food Waste Into Living Soil, Right Here in Bristol
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rated 5.0 on Google
Join Bristol’s community-led composting network and keep your food waste working locally not shipped out of the city.
The Bristol Living Compost Project is a household food waste collection and composting service run by Generation Soil CIC, a Bristol-based Community Interest Company regenerating local soils and food systems.
We collect food waste from Bristol homes, compost it locally using living biological processes, and return nutrients to the city as living, microbe-rich compost.
This is composting done properly clean, local, and soil-positive.
How Membership Works
Your membership covers:
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Local household food waste collection in Bristol
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Clean, sealable buckets and bokashi fermentation
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Composting and maturation using living biological processes
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Returning nutrients to Bristol soil
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Community education, growing projects, and soil regeneration work
Most members choose a monthly plan and build up a living compost allowance across the year.
If you’d like compost sooner and better value overall annual plans include two months free.
Who This Is For
You can join the Bristol Living Compost Project if you:
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Live in Bristol
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Want a clean, odour-free way to compost food waste
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Care about soil, food growing, and local impact
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Prefer practical action over greenwashing
No garden required.
No mess.
No long explanations.
Just food scraps → compost → soil.
What Happens When You Join
Joining is simple. Once you sign up:
1. You Collect Food Scraps at Home
You’ll use a clean, sealable bucket and bokashi bran to store food waste safely and without smells.
You can compost:
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Fruit and vegetables
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Cooked food and leftovers
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Bread, grains, tea bags
No liquids.
No plastic.
2. We Collect Your Food Waste Locally
When your bucket is full, you request a collection.
We swap it for a clean bucket and top up your bokashi bran keeping collections efficient and local across Bristol.
3. We Compost It in Bristol
Your food waste is:
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Fermented to stabilise nutrients
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Composted under managed biological conditions
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Matured into living, microbe-rich compost
Nothing leaves the city.
4. Nutrients Return to the Soil
Living compost is returned to:
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Gardens and allotments
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Schools and community growing spaces
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Our food forest market garden
Your food waste comes back to life as soil.
Why Join the Bristol Living Compost Project?
Most food waste systems remove nutrients from cities.
Our system keeps them cycling locally.
By joining, you help:
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Reduce transport emissions
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Rebuild urban soil with living compost
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Support local food growing
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Improve soil water retention and flood resilience
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Strengthen Bristol’s circular food system
Household composting might feel small.
Across a city, it becomes a real solution.
What You Receive as a Member
All members receive:
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Local household food waste collection in Bristol
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A clean, simple composting system that fits daily life
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Bokashi bran and bucket support
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Transparency about where your food waste goes
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Invitations to workshops, events, and community projects
Depending on your membership, you can also:
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Receive living compost back for your garden or plants
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Donate compost to local growing spaces
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Access discounts on additional compost
This is composting with care, not control.
Ready to Join?
Membership options start from £5 per month and can be changed or cancelled at any time.
Most households choose Soil Saviour for the best balance of compost return and local impact.
Want to Learn More First?
You can also:
But when you’re ready, joining takes just a few minutes.
What Members Say
Adrian, Bristol Living Compost Project Member
“Fantastic service. No smell, no maggots (unlike the council brown bins). They collect my food waste and turn it into compost for my garden and allotment.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rated 5.0 on Google
Regeneration Starts at Home
By joining the Bristol Living Compost Project, you help prove that:
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Waste can become nourishment
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Soil regeneration can happen locally
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Cities can feed themselves better
One kitchen at a time.
👉 Choose Your Membership and Join the Project
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