Meet your sustainability goals by subscribing your workplace to our weekly food scrap collection service in central Pōneke
The nuts and bolts
We provide you with a 20 litre Kaicycle bucket to keep in your office’s kitchen.
You and your colleagues collect food scraps throughout the week - feeling good about supporting a local, low-carbon grassroots initiative! Click here to see what we do and don’t accept.
Our cyclists collect and swap your bucket with a clean one every week on a Wednesday or Thursday (depending on your location) and transport it back to the farm in Newtown using an e-bike and trailer.
Over a 6 month process, we manually transform your food scraps into beautiful biologically active compost that’s full of microbes & mauri which we use at our farm and donate to community gardens to grow organic nutritious kai - completing the lifecycle.
Investment
For businesses, we request a minimum of $85 /month per 20 litre bucket ~ $19.60 /week + GST. Regular donations above this amount will help to deliver our outreach & education programmes at the farm.
For non-profits, we request a minimum of $59.50 /month ~ $13.73 /week + GST (incl 30% discount).
For larger offices, extra buckets can be added to the subscription, charged at the same price, with a 15% discount on the third bucket.
Billing is on the 1st of the month to be paid within 30 days.
Read our full collection service info here!
Free trial month
Not sure if your office produces enough food scraps? It’s hard to measure food scraps without collecting them separately, so we’re offering a free trial month so you can see how much you actually produce. Get in touch to see if this could be a good fit for you.
We have 100+ happy customers around Pōneke
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
Why Kaicycle?
We’re local
We’re a not-for-profit based in Newtown and have been collecting and composting food scraps for local businesses and households since 2015. We currently service ~85 businesses in the central city. Our work helps create closed loop systems - improving local environmental health, kai security and community resilience.
We’re not just a waste solution
Composting with Kaicycle maximises your organisation’s environmental and community impact:
Outreach & education: In 2025, we hosted 150 volunteer sessions, 17 workshops and 726 tamariki & rangatahi for educational experiences - connecting Wellingtonians with the whenua and upskilling them on regenerative farming & composting.
Supporting community growing: In 2025, we donated 5077 litres of our compost to community gardens, marae, schools and kindergartens - building up the soil quality of communities across Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Addressing food insecurity: In 2025, we donated half (300kg) of the produce grown at our farm to people without access to fresh, organic, nutrient-dense kai - via the Newtown Community Centre & the Compassion Soup Kitchen.
We’re convenient
We collect direct from your kitchen and provide a clean bucket each week, keeping things easy for your staff!
We’re low carbon
We’re seriously low carbon - we run our collections using e-bikes and trailers, do all our composting by hand, and operate outdoors so have zero emissions from buildings.
We offer waste reporting
We monitor how many kilograms of food waste we collect from you each week, so that we can report back to you the total emissions avoided from landfill (kg CO2-e) every 6 months for an additional fee.
We’re a Living Wage employer
We operate a professional composting service at Kaicycle, which means we don’t operate quite like other community gardens that are powered by volunteers. We pay the Living Wage to our cyclists and composters for their mahi. So your subscription fee goes towards:
Collecting your food scraps weekly by e-bike & trailer - transporting them from the hub to our urban farm
Cleaning out the buckets, tubs and wheelie bins, and resetting them so they’re fresh each week
Processing the food scraps by hand - removing fruit stickers and non-compostable items, and preparing the compost piles
Monitoring our 30 compost piles over 4-6 months - turning them and ensuring ideal conditions for microbial activity (e.g. temperature, moisture, air flow)
Maturing the compost for another 2 months - increasing activity from worms, invertebrates and fungi
Donating our matured & living compost to marae, community gardens and schools, or using it on our own farm to grow organic kai
Hosting events, workshops and volunteer sessions to share our composting and farming knowledge
Improving our infrastructure and processes so that we can keep producing premium living compost that regenerates soils, grows healthy kai and nourishes our communities.
Thank you for supporting grassroots climate action.
