Roots in Your Community

The Compost People began in February 2020 as a simple idea from one Pittsburgh local: make composting easier, cleaner, and accessible for every household. Starting in Mt. Lebanon, the service quickly grew across the region by offering a straightforward system — a bucket, a pickup, and a promise that your food scraps would be turned into something good for the earth.

In March 2025, The Compost People joined Zero Waste Wrangler, combining two Pittsburgh-based composting efforts with one shared mission: Zero Waste.

To us, this means continually improving how we collect, reuse, and recover materials — without harmful emissions or waste that threatens people or the planet. We know perfection isn’t realistic, but progress is. Every smarter route, every reduced truck mile, every diverted bucket of food scraps gets us closer to a cleaner system.

Together, we’re expanding service coverage, improving pickup efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and giving customers more resources to live in alignment with their values.

Today, The Compost People remains what it’s always been: a local, community-driven composting service committed to doing better every day — for our neighbors, for our soil, and for the future of South West Pennsylvania.

Simple service. Real impact. Zero waste, one bucket at a time.

A man and woman standing inside a moving truck, holding a green sign that reads 'The Compost People: your curbside compost pickup service'. The man is dressed in a plaid shirt, kilt, and cowboy hat, with knee-high socks and boots. The woman is dressed casually in a green hoodie and black pants. There are green recycling bins and other equipment inside the truck.
Green waste management truck with a logo showing a woman riding a horse with long black hair and a ponytail, holding a stick. The truck has the text 'ZERO WASTE WRANGLER' and a website link 'zerowastewrangler.com' on the side.
Three white buckets with green lids and logo, placed on a paved surface outdoors with greenery in the background.
Small green and white van with signs promoting composting and recycling, featuring a watermelon slice, fish bones, banana peel, and text "COMPOSTING & RECYCLING" and "zerowastewrangler.com", parked outdoors during winter.