We are welcoming new business customers located in Wellington Central and Te Aro

Kaicycle Composting for Businesses

Weekly collection subscription

• How it works: We provide you with one or more 20-litre Kaicycle buckets to keep in your kitchen, and swap it with a fresh one each week. We collect using ebikes, not trucks – reducing carbon emissions even further.

• Cost: $77+GST/month, for up to 20 litres collected weekly. Up to two additional 20-L buckets can be provided for an additional $77+GST/month each. We offer a discounted rate for fellow nonprofits, of $44+GST/month per bucket.

• Sign up: You can sign up via the Living Compost Hubs app, or email us at compost@kaicycle.org.nz.

• See our full collection service info here.

What happens to your food scraps? We turn them into beautiful compost over a 3-6 month composting process. This compost is donated to local community gardens, marae and schools, and used on our urban farm in Newtown. We will begin compost sales later in 2024 to help cover costs, while continuing our donations - watch this space!

What we accept

Please click here to see what we do and don’t accept. We work hard to avoid contamination in our compost, and need your support with this.

What our customers say

“We compost with Kaicycle as part of our commitment to environmental sustainability. It’s often hard to find ways for an office to take real action on our commitment to sustainability, but Kaicycle offers us something we could easily take part in and makes a real difference to our local community.”

• MartinJenkins, consultancy

“We compost with Kaicycle as it's a critical part of reducing our emissions to remain Climate Positive. Our kaupapa is also all about sharing with and uplifting our community, so why not do that with our food scraps that go on to help luscious soil for tasty kai to grow in, just down the road? We're stoked to be one of the community changemakers in Te Whanganui-a-Tara right alongside Kaicycle!”

• two/fiftyseven, impact-focused coworking space 

We help grow food—not landfills

Kaicycle has been collecting and composting food scraps for Wellington businesses and households since 2015. We are strong advocates for composting systems that operate on a local scale, support urban soil regeneration and food production, and generate a range of benefits for the community and environment.