newlifesoils@gmail.com (216) 978-7918
🌱Local • Closed loop • Gardener led🌱

Kent food scrap pickup that becomes living compost

Weekly residential compost pickup in Kent, OH. We provide the sealed bucket and bokashi bran, collect your scraps, and turn them into monitored, living compost for local soil.

Start Weekly Pickup — $32/mo See how it works
This year's scraps become next year's soil.
Month-to-month. No contracts. Pause anytime.
Hands holding rich compost
Weekly pickup Sealed square bucket Bokashi bran included Compost returned 100% local inputs
Founder Eduardo
Now serving Kent and surrounding areas.
Pickup day: Tuesday.
Did you know? Landfilled food waste emits methane; a greenhouse gas that has 80× more global warming potential than CO₂ over 20 years . EPA source
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Simple process

How it works

Three steps. Your scraps. Our mess. New Life.

Compost bucket delivery

1We drop off a bucket

You get a clean, sealed, tight-lid, square 4-gallon bucket delivered to your door. Plus bokashi bran to keep things fresh and odor-free.

Kitchen pail with approved scraps

2You fill it up

Toss in approved scraps throughout the week. Sprinkle a bit of bokashi bran on top after adding scraps to eliminate odors.

Yes: Fruit & veg scraps, coffee & tea, paper waste.
No: Meat, dairy, plastic, excessive fats, oils or liquids, pet waste.

Bucket swap on pickup day

3We swap it weekly

Set your bucket out before pickup day. We grab the full one and leave a clean one. Subscribers get finished compost back every spring and fall!

Closed-loop process

Different scraps want different homes

New Life Soils routes organic material based on producing the best output: hot compost, worm castings, fungal-rich leaf mold, or specialty blends.

Worm bins

Best for: coffee grounds, soft plant scraps, and carefully balanced carbon.

Produces: highly nutritious and biologically active vermicastings. Perfect for seedlings, garden beds, and soil biology. Makes excellent compost tea.

Primary system

Hot compost pile

Best for: weekly food scraps, yard waste, leaves, and shredded carbon.

Produces: General purpose, biologically active, and stable living compost. Use it for your garden, lawn, containers, and more.

"Cold" fungal pile

Best for: Spent brewing grains, leaves, wood chips, mushroom substrate, and other carbon-rich inputs.

Produces: loamy, fungally dominant, foresty, peat moss-like compost. Excellent for trees, shrubs, perennials, lawns, succulents and potting mixes.

Measured, not guessed

We track each system with sensor technology.

Every batch is logged and monitored continuously for temperature and moisture. Ensuring our pile gets hot enough to sterlize seeds and kill pathogens. Also this data tells us when to turn, when the pile is ready for the next stage, and when the curing is done. The data tells us, not the calendar.

What this means for customers

  • Cleaner buckets: bokashi bran reduces odor before pickup, sealed lids contain odors and keep pests out
  • Better finished compost: inputs are balanced and verified with sensor data.
  • Local soil and amendments with real process notes made from local inputs.
Choose your plan

Simple, transparent pricing

Monthly Food Scraps

$32/mo

Weekly pickup in Kent. Month-to-month. Pause anytime.

  • Includes: Sealed Uline bucket, bokashi bran, bucket liner.
  • Yes: Fruit & veg scraps, coffee & filters, tea (no staples), eggshells, plain paper/cardboard.
  • No: Meat, dairy, fats & oils, liquids/soups, packaging/plastics (incl. "compostable"), pet waste.

Add-on: extra bucket per pickup (+$5).

Start monthly
Best Value

Annual Food Scraps

$300/yr  $25/mo effective

Same weekly service, paid once for the year. Save $84 compared with monthly.

  • Includes: All the same options as above, just at an effective cost of $25/mo.
  • Plus: Preference for compost returns. Your choice of vermicastings or general purpose compost.
  • Best for: households ready to make composting a normal weekly habit but cannot or do not have the means to handle the messy part.

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Join Meat+ waitlist
Plants-only for households right now. Want to include meat/dairy later? Join the Meat+ pilot waitlist.

Restaurant or Business?

We accept everything — meat, dairy, fats, bones, and all organic waste. As-needed pickup, per-pickup pricing, and terms built around your operation.

Get a Custom Quote
What goes in the bucket

Food Scraps Guide

Plants-only for now. Want to compost meat & dairy? Join our Meat+ waitlist.

Yes, please

  • Fruit & veg peels, skins, and cores (seeds and all except stickers/labels).
  • Coffee grounds and tea, filters and all (no staples).
  • Paper towels/napkins, uncoated or non-shiny paper/cardboard.
  • Egg shells, cooked eggs, solid dairy (cheese) and shellfish shells.
  • Old or unwanted leftovers (minimal liquids).
  • Hamster, guinea pig, or other herbivore bedding made of wood shavings, saw dust, or paper.

No, thanks

  • Meat, liquid dairy, fats & oils.
  • Soups, excessive liquids, fats & oils.
  • Produce stickers, twist ties, rubber bands, shiny paper, packaging.
  • Dog, cat, or other pet waste or litter, diapers, wipes, or human waste. Just no.
  • Harsh cleaners/chemicals (on paper towels).
Why? They take too long to break down, attract pests, or contaminate finished compost.
Why New Life Soils?

What makes us different?

Closed-loop composting

Closed Loop

Your scraps never leave Kent. The compost you get back is made 100% from local inputs.

Compost thermometer showing soil-first standards

Soil First Standards

Engineer-led process using sensor technology for biologically active compost. Each batch is monitored and tested. It's alive!

Clean sealed compost bucket

Clean & Easy

Square bucket, sealed lid, odor neutralizer, clear rules, weekly swaps. We do the messy part.

The team

Meet your compost crew

Eduardo, founder of New Life Soils

Eduardo

Founder • Soil lover, trash hater

I started New Life Soils to make the messy part of composting easy and accessible for everyone. I handle the buckets and piles; you get living compost and a cleaner conscience.

  • 🌱 Scraps collector
  • 🌱 Pile turner
  • 🌱 Gardener
  • 🌱 Engineer
Benito the dog

Benito Certified Good Boy

Chief Fetch Officer

I love the outdoors, especially digging, fetching sticks, and rolling in anything smelly.

  • 🦴 Quality-control sniffs
  • 🐾 Company morale
  • 🦴 Squirrel diplomacy
Where we run

Service area & schedule

We serve Kent and surrounding areas with pickups every Tuesday.

Outside the area? Drop us a line — we're growing.

Route density keeps prices fair. Thank you for telling your neighbors!
Kent, Ohio compost pickup

Residential food scrap pickup for Kent households

New Life Soils is a local compost pickup service for Kent, OH residents who want to keep food scraps out of the landfill without managing a pile at home. We provide the sealed bucket, include bokashi bran for odor control, pick up weekly on Tuesday, and return finished compost to subscribers during gardening season.

The focus is hyper-local: Kent scraps become Kent soil. That keeps the nutrient loop close to home and helps build better soil for local gardens, yards, and future growing projects.

Common questions

FAQ

Do you accept meat or dairy?
For restaurants, yes! We accept just about everything with some small exceptions. Please reach out for a custom quote. For residents, not yet! We're piloting a Meat+ option. Add "Meat+ waitlist" in your signup notes to be first in line.
What about the smell or pests?
Every bucket comes with bokashi bran. Just sprinkle a handful on top after adding scraps. It eliminates odor, prevents fruit flies, and kick starts the composting process while outcompeting the smelly bad bacteria and mold. Combined with weekly swaps and our sealed bucket, smell and pests are a non-issue.
What do I get back?
Two compost returns per year. One in spring and one in fall, timed for gardening season. Monitored and tested, biologically active living compost made from your neighborhood's inputs.
What is bokashi bran?
Bokashi bran is a grain inoculated with beneficial microbes. Sprinkling it on your scraps introduces good bacteria that outcompete the bad bacteria. This eliminates odors, prevents fruit flies, and jump-starts the composting process before we even pick up your bucket. It's included free with every subscription. No other local service offers this.
How is this different from other composting services?
We're hyperlocal, gardener-led, and engineer-run with soil-first standards. Your scraps never leave Kent. They become next year's soil. We include bokashi bran with every bucket (no other local service does this), and every batch is tracked and monitored so you know exactly what's in your soil and where it came from.
Can I pause or cancel?
Anytime. No contracts. Month-to-month payments. Try it out, risk free.
What if I miss a pickup?
We'll grab it on the next scheduled pickup. Need a special reschedule? $10 — but your first reschedule is on us.
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Fill out the form and we'll confirm your first bucket drop for Tuesday.

By submitting, you agree to our simple policies below.
You're in! We'll confirm your bucket drop for Tuesday. Questions? Email newlifesoils@gmail.com or text (216) 978-7918.

Outside our area? Email us with your ZIP and we'll let you know when we expand.

New Life Soils, LLC

Kent, OH
© New Life Soils, LLC

Policies

After signup: We'll contact you within 24 hours to confirm pickup day and bucket drop.

Refund/Cancel: Cancel before your pickup day. Missed pickups roll to next pickup or can be rescheduled for $10. First reschedule is free.

Privacy: We only use your info to run your service. We do not harvest your data. We use a trusted third-party POS system (Stripe) for all transactions. We only store your contact information.

Contact: We reply within 1 business day.