Star City Compost

16/05/2025

Join us at compost fest tomorrow!

15/05/2025

Join us for compost fest this weekend!

06/05/2025

Banging out some T-posts and getting our fence ready to expand our family berry garden at the compost facility. Come join us when we plant our berry garden the morning of compost fest 5/17. It will be followed up with a kids concert, plant walk, tour of the facility, lunch, and a concert in the afternoon.

It’s going to be awesome!!

05/05/2025

Yesterday, we hosted a tour at Star City Compost for Virginia Tech dietetics students. They all enjoyed hearing our story, knowledge on composting policy in America, and practical information about how to compost properly. We’ll be hosting another tour for free at compost fest on May 17.

22/04/2025

Earth Day Sign-Up DIscount with Star City Compost

Happy Earth Day! We are offering individuals and families a $20 discount when signing up for our food waste recycling programs until the end of April. We presently charge a $33 sign-up fee when people initiate their service with Star City Compost, but instead we are slashing that fee to just $13. And, we are also going to fill your bucket with compost and deliver it to you, so you can feed some of the plants in your garden or yard when starting the program.

Join the more than 200 households in the roanoke valley have chosen to reduce their carbon footprint by composting with Star city compost.

Copy the link below into your browser for $25 sign-up for the drop-off program
($13 discounted sign-up + $12 first monthly fee)
Link: https://swipesimple.com/links/lnk_28723f3b876a46ff371f752eb40b54ba

Or

Copy the link below into your browser for the $40 sign-up for the curbside program
($13 discounted sign-up fee + $27 first monthly fee)
Link: https://swipesimple.com/links/lnk_3c9b57f4ff1cfe7e292fa28279b68ced

13/04/2025

I had a good time sharing my journey and work as an earth steward at 2nd Presbyterian church today. It sounds like many members will be joining us to compost their food waste. Become a member today!

12/04/2025

It’s the 7th blue ridge had marathon that I’ve been a part of managing the “green team.” We’ll be recycling and composting all that we can from the event and hopefully divert at least 60% of the waste from the landfill. Later today, we’ll get all the cups from the runner stations. We’re grateful to and for hosting this event every year. Also, grateful for the for volunteering with us this year.

10/04/2025

One aspect of composting that’s often overlooked is how keeping food waste out of the landfill is one way to combat climate change. It makes us happy to issue these certificates to our commercial customer’s so they can show their community that they are a compost champion!

From the 5 certificates we provided today these compost champions prevented 229.11 metric tons of C02 from being emitted to the atmosphere by composting. That is the equivalent of not burning 25,674 G of gasoline. In total it is 114,727 lbs of food waste properly recycled back to the earth.

We are very grateful to Hollins University, LEAP, Blue Ridge Catering, Alexander’s, and one unnamed client for being compost champions and supporting the good work to steward environmental resources that Star City Compost does.

Do you know a restaurant, cafeteria, or coffee shop you’d like to see become a compost champion? Let them know about our organic waste recycling programs!

05/04/2025

We had a fun time searching for worms and building a compost pile as a fart of the Grandin Go Green Event at Raleigh Court Library. We’d love to find more summer camps, teachers, or schools who would like to have a hands on experience with composting by having our educational trailer visit.

01/04/2025

We are super excited to be a part of this Go Green with Grandin Festival. We will be bringing the compost education trailer and will do some teaching about building compost piles throughout.

We hope to see you there!

01/02/2025

We are now taking Pre-Orders for compost which can be picked up or delivered in late February and March. Sign-Up Here:

Please let us know if you are interested in ordering Bulk Compost from Star City Compost. We will be charging $50/cubic yard of compost. We can deliver up to 5 BY at a time and charge a flat rate of $35 if you are within 12 miles of the compost facility. An additional $1.20/mile for the round trip w...

26/01/2025

I’m very proud of our new compost bunker gates! Guess what!? I can weld! And do carpentry. I like building things and making compost. Especially when it all comes together 😉