COMMUNITY COMPOSTING HUBS
Community composting hubs are places that accept anyone’s food scraps. In many cases, these hubs use the compost to nourish community gardens or distribute the compost for community needs.
When you use a community composting hub, you’re helping keep food scraps out of landfill. This helps ensure these valuable nutrients aren’t lost forever, and reduces production of methane in landfills.
We want to help more people with composting their food scraps, even if they don’t have the space or need for compost themselves.
START A COMPOSTING HUB
Keen to start a community composting hub? Compost Collective have funds and resources available to support you. We support the development and operations of community composting hubs, where businesses and households can bring food scraps and garden waste for composting, with the compost used for food gardens. We broker connections between these groups to complete the regeneration cycle.
We have the following support available to help you get started:
- Free advice from a Compost Collective Facilitator in your local area
- Free composting workshops, fact sheets and other resources, and information about composting in schools
- Resource list of composting tools/items you may need
- Financial support through our Community Composting Grant

FIND A LOCAL COMPOSTING HUB
Keen to find a place to drop off your food scraps instead of throwing them in the bin?
We’re sad to see ShareWaste go, but there’s good news! You can sign up today to stay informed about community composting options available across Aotearoa.
Community composting information sign-up.
Discover MakeSoil
The easiest way to find a local composting hub is to join MakeSoil.
MakeSoil connects “Soil Makers” (composters) with nearby “Soil Supporters” (scrap contributors), helping Kiwis divert green scraps from landfills by pairing them with neighbors who compost, use worm farms, or keep chickens.
Have a look at the MakeSoil map to see how close to home you might be able to drop off your compost!
Tamaki Makaurau Composters Network
Join the Tāmaki Makaurau Composters Network (TMCN) which sits as a regional arm of the Aotearoa Composters Network (ACN) and is a group of compost hubs, clubs and consultants who support communities, businesses, households and institutions to compost their food scraps and organics. Their mission is to empower change towards circular systems through active composting partnerships and resilience education throughout Aotearoa.
Our pilot hubs
We currently have three Community Composting Hubs running as pilots, to evaluate how best to meet our community needs:
Hope Teaching Garden, Riverbank Road, New Lynn and
EcoMatters Organic Teaching Garden, Olympic Place, New Lynn, supported by EcoMatters.
For more information, please email [email protected]
Kaipātiki Community Compost Hub, 17 Lauderdale Road, Birkdale, supported by Kaipātiki Project.
For more information, please email Judith: [email protected]