FoodCycle At Home

Looking to reduce your food waste? Join FoodCycle at Home! 

To join, sign up for upcoming information session, get your FREE pail, and start composting!

Upcoming Information Sessions

This program offers residents the opportunity to drop off their food scraps at locations across Tucson for composting at the Los Reales Sustainability Campus. 

Did you know the majority of the food thrown away is compostable? Composting gives back to the community, reduces waste, and decreases greenhouse gas emissions.

The City of Tucson's FoodCycle Program is a food waste collection and composting program operated by Environmental Services in partnership with the University of Arizona Compost Cats.

If you need to cancel your training attendance or have questions about compost drop-off, acceptable materials, or upcoming trainings, our team is here to help.

Email us at foodcycle@tucsonaz.gov and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

How does the program work?

1. Residents receive drop-off sites access code, training materials and a plastic container to fill with the food waste they generate. Resident can select to use their own container. 
2. Containers with food waste can be emptied at one of the locked bin drop- off locations
3. Locked food waste bins at these sites are emptied once or twice a week and the scraps are taken to the Los Reales Composting Facility where they are mixed with green waste and turned into compost!
4. The compost is then redistributed throughout the community. When you sign up for training, you will be added to our newsletter to get compost pick up updates!  

FoodCycle at Home Drop-Off Sites

FoodCycle at Home Drop- Off Sites Map