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Professional composting for homes, businesses, and events — built for Memphis and designed to keep food waste out of landfills
Food waste is filling our landfills.
Each year, nearly two million tons of waste are sent to Shelby County landfills, and almost 40 percent of it could be composted. That’s food scraps, leftovers, and organic material that could be returned to the soil instead of taking up space and generating methane emissions.
Memphis has an opportunity to do better, and The Compost Fairy exists to help our city treat food waste like the resource it truly is.
Composting, built for Memphis.
The Compost Fairy provides reliable, industrial-scale composting services across Memphis. We work with:
Households looking for simple, convenient curbside pickup.
Restaurants and businesses that need dependable organics recycling.
Event organizers and venues seeking responsible waste diversion.
We compost 100% of the food waste we collect — including meat, bones, grease, and other items many assume cannot be composted — and return it to the local community as nutrient-rich compost.
This isn’t backyard composting. It’s professional, transparent, and built to last.
1. Choose your service: Sign up for residential, commercial, or event composting.
2. Receive your buckets: We deliver food waste buckets directly to your home or business.
3. Fill them up: Cooked food, leftovers, meat, bones, grease, fruit, vegetables, paper towels, dryer lint, and more. No glass, metal, plastic, or food packaging.
4. We collect and compost: Let us handle the rest — diverting your food waste from landfills and transforming it into usable compost.
Want to Join the Compost Nation?
Remember no glass, metal, plastic, food packaging & wrappers please!
