Regenerating Soil Health in Bristol, One Kitchen at a Time Through Local Composting
Generation Soil CIC is a Bristol-based Community Interest Company delivering a household food waste collection and community composting service that regenerates local soils and food systems.
We turn everyday food waste into living, microbe-rich compost that restores soil, supports local food growing, and helps Bristol thrive.
This spring, we’re inviting households across Bristol to join a simple, powerful movement:
Keep your food waste local, and grow the loop between what we eat and what we grow.
This is a practical, community-led approach to regenerating Bristol’s soils, food growing spaces, and relationship with waste.
What Is the Bristol Living Compost Project?
The Bristol Living Compost Project is our city-wide, community composting and food waste collection initiative for households and small businesses in Bristol.
When you join as a household member:
✅ You collect your food scraps at home
✅ We collect them locally across Bristol
✅ They are fermented and composted with beneficial microbes
✅ They are turned into living, microbe-rich compost
✅ That compost feeds Bristol’s gardens, allotments and food forests
Your food waste doesn’t leave the city.
It comes back to life as soil.
Why Household Composting in Bristol Matters
Most food waste collected in cities is transported long distances, taking nutrients and carbon away from local soils.
When household food waste stays in Bristol through local composting:
✅ Carbon emissions from transport are reduced
✅ Urban soils are regenerated with living compost
✅ Community food growing and allotments are supported
✅ Flood risk is reduced through healthier, more absorbent soil
✅ People reconnect with the natural cycles that sustain life
Household composting might feel small.
Across a city, it becomes a measurable climate and soil solution.
Growing the Loop: How Local Food Waste Composting Works
A simple cycle, powered by people
1️⃣ You save your food scraps at home
2️⃣ Generation Soil collects your food waste locally in Bristol
3️⃣ Food waste is fermented and composted with microbes and fungi
4️⃣ Living compost restores soil across Bristol
5️⃣ Healthy soil grows food, stores carbon and supports nature
That’s the loop. And you can be part of it.
The Impact So Far
Thanks to Our Bristol Living Compost Project Members
Through our Bristol-based household composting service, members are already creating real impact.
In 2025 alone:
✅ 32,640 litres of food waste composted locally
✅ 13.8 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent emissions avoided
✅ 58 households and 8 businesses joined the loop
The average household contributed 178 litres per year.
Small actions. Multiplied across a city.
What You Get as a Household Member
When you join the Bristol Living Compost Project, you receive:
✅ Local household food waste collection in Bristol
✅ A simple, supported composting system that fits daily life
✅ The option to receive living compost back for your plants or garden
✅ Full transparency about where your food waste goes
✅ Invitations to workshops, events and community growing projects
This is composting with care, not control.
Ready to Grow the Loop?
👉 Join the Bristol Living Compost Project
Become part of a circular food system where nothing is wasted and every handful of compost helps restore the soil beneath our city.
Sign up today and start composting locally with Generation Soil.
Want to Go Deeper?
Once you’ve joined, you can also:
✅ Support workshops and community growing projects
✅ Grow with living compost made in Bristol
✅ Learn more through the Generation Soil blog
But it all starts here.
With households.
With food waste.
With soil.
Together, We’re Proving That Regeneration Starts at Home
Join the Bristol Living Compost Project
Made in Bristol. Powered by people, compost, and hope.