FoodCycle At Home

Food Cycle at Home LogoLooking 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!  

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FoodCycle Drop Off Sites

FoodCycle at Home Drop- Off Sites Map

Locked bins for food scraps are set up at each of the following locations:  

Blue Moon Garden

Effective August 1 Blue Moon Garden collection site will be temporarily closed due to construction in area.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  

 1501 N. Oracle Road
El Rio Center 1277 N. Riverview Boulevard
Freedom Park 5000 E 29th Street
Highland Vista Garden 5300 E. 7th Street
Iron Horse Garden 560 E 10th Street
McCormick Park 2950 N Columbus Boulevard
Mission Garden 946 W. Mission Lane
New Spirit Garden 8701 E. Old Spanish Trail
Palo Verde Park  259 S. Langley Ave
Pio Decimo Garden 835 S. 7th Avenue
Purple Heart Dog Park 9820 Rees Loop
Randolph Way 850 S. Randolph Way

Tucson Clean and Beautiful

Effective August 1 Tucson Clean and Beautiful collection site to be moved to Ward 5 Office. 

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  

 4300 S. Park Ave.
Tucson Village Farm Big Farm 2201 E. Roger Road
Udall Park 7290 E. Tanque Verde Road
University of Arizona Garden 1400 E. Mabel Street
Ward 1 940 W Alameda Street
Ward 4 8155 E. Poinciana Drive

 

Accepted and Unaccepted Materials

More Information at the Know Where to Throw website

 

More Information

FoodCycle Program Information(PDF, 1MB) 

FoodCycle at Home Drop-offs Map

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