Bootstrap Compost is a Boston-based company advertised as a "year-round kitchen scrap pick-up service." I read this article on it a few days ago. The company's creator and only employee, Andy Brooks, rides around Boston on a bicycle and occasional pick-up truck, delivering and receiving scrap-filled buckets customers leave outside their doors. After 10-15 weeks, Brooks returns soil to the customer, or donates it to a Jamaica Plain or Roxbury garden.
The idea is in the same greener-living vein as guerilla gardening, with a clear self-sustaining business model and a growing customer base. He now has 80 people paying him to compost, at $8 for a weekly pick-up, $18 for bi-monthly, and $10 for monthly.
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