Kompost Kids is your one-stop location to engage with composting (learn AND volunteer!), drop off food and yard scraps as MKE’s only free continuously operating self-drop community compost site.

Explore our site to find out how you can get involved, make a difference in your community, and give back to the soil that feeds all of us. Starting Spring 2025, check out what’s new for Bokashi and starting April, we’ll have our events calendar in Facebook for upcoming happenings.

If you’re looking for some how-to’s in MKE — Hummingbird MKE has an EXCELLENT How to Compost in Milwaukee FAQ Guide.

Mission

Our mission is to educate the public, individuals, businesses, and institutions about the benefits of compost and to reclaim organic materials from landfills to create soil for community-based agriculture projects.

Vision

We are an eager, determined group of urban pioneers, cultivating our communities through advocacy, education, and hard work.

We envision a world in which every person disposes of food residuals and compostable materials in an environmentally sustainable way, and the landfill is never an option.

We envision a world in which so-called “waste” is regenerated into living soil, healing the Earth, and nourishing our gardens, bodies, and souls.

We envision a world in which government, businesses, families, and individuals unite to plant the seeds of community so we can change the way we view our “waste” stream.

Transforming Soil. Transforming Lives. Transforming Our Communities.

What We Do

Kompost Kids is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming our “waste” stream through active landfill diversion and local disposal of food residuals and other compostables.

To our knowledge, we are Milwaukee’s only free continuously operating self-drop community compost site. Our Milwaukee neighbors bring their food scraps and small amounts of other yard organics that we process into compost. We have always donated this nutrient rich soil to the community either through large scale direct to garden giveaways and free self-help compost.