How it works
We make composting simple by coming to you.
We provide pickup service for residential food waste right from your home. You collect your fruit and vegetable scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds, and other food waste, and we handle the rest. On your scheduled pickup day, we empty your compost container and transport everything directly to the commercial composting facility at the Montezuma County Landfill.
The professionals at the landfill take it from there. Using their specialized equipment, they transform your food scraps into high-quality compost that's sold back to the community.
It's composting made easy—for you and for Montezuma County.
Who We Are
We're Erin and Oliver, and we live right here in Dolores. Between the two of us, we have over a decade of experience in policy, energy, water, and law. We spend a lot of time thinking about how systems work and how they can work better.
We also have a garden. And like a lot of home gardeners, we found ourselves with more food scraps than our backyard compost pile could handle. We didn't want those scraps ending up in the landfill, where they would decompose and release methane into the atmosphere. So we started thinking about what else we could do with them.
That's when we learned about the composting facility at the Montezuma County Landfill and realized there was a gap in the system: the county has the equipment to compost food waste, but no way to collect it from residents. We call it the last mile problem.
So we started MoCo Compo to solve it. Our goal is simple: keep food scraps out of the landfill and turn them into something useful for our community.
Contact us
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