Until now, large generators of food waste have had few to no alternate options for disposal other than including it with their normal daily refuse. Today, Land and Lakes Company offers the Chicagoland area the green alternative of Food Waste Recycling to those who are willing to separate food waste from their current waste stream.

FOOD WASTE COMPOSTING
Progressive thinking and technical expertise led Land and Lakes to become one of the first environmental service companies in Illinois to receive landscape waste recycling permits. Since this time, we have become the state’s largest landscape waste compost operator in terms of volume of material taken in and customers served. Our large-scale, state-of-the-art composting facilities, cover 250 acres and serve over 80 Chicago communities with leaf, grass and brush composting capabilities.

In December 2009, Land and Lakes Company was granted the City of Chicago’s first permit to operate a food waste recycling center at Harbor View, one of our current composting facilities. Our Aerated Windrow Composting Process mixes a percentage of food waste in with our current yardwaste compost to create an unparalleled soil amendment to be used by landscapers and gardeners.

Land and Lakes compost is used for beautification of city parks and highway vegetation projects, as well as in gardens for potting. An outstanding soil amendment, compost reduces run-off and evaporation, helps control erosion, assists in the reduction of weeds, enhances plant life and seed growth, and improves the overall appearance of landscaping. Each year, Land and Lakes processes hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of landscape waste into a premium finished compost product.

For a brochure on Land and Lakes’ Food Waste Composting, please click the link below.
>> Food Waste Composting Brochure