Good Start Blog

We often get questions from restaurant owners about the benefits of using compostable take out containers in cities where there is no commercial compost service for residents or businesses. Recently a restaurant in Oakland (which has a compost service) also wondered what happens if a consumer takes a compostable container and puts it in a city trash can instead of a compost bin.We love these questions because it means people are becoming conscious of the massive amounts of food packaging waste we create and agree we need solutions for it.Our response to the first issue is to make sure everyone knows that, like their plastic counterparts, even compostable containers don’t break down in any reasonable amount of time in a landfill. We need to avoid putting anything in landfills. But if you don’t have a choice in your community, you still get many benefits from using compostables. We call these “upstream” benefits because they occur before the product is used by the consumer. Made From Ren