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You've Wanted to Do Something About Your Office Food Waste. Now You Can.
The Office Compost Program didn't start with a business plan. It started with a problem we saw every day in our clients' offices.
As a commercial cleaning company serving businesses across Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge, our team watched, day after day, as coffee grounds, lunch scraps, and paper towels — all perfectly compostable — got thrown into garbage bags headed for the landfill. Our clients weren't careless people. They were busy people who cared about the environment but had no option. In the Waterloo Region, businesses don't have access to the residential green bin program. There was simply nothing else.
That felt wrong to us. So in 2018, we built the solution ourselves.
The Office Compost Program became Waterloo Region's first and only dedicated office food waste pickup service. And what we've seen since then has been remarkable: businesses that join feel genuine pride in what they're achieving. Employees get excited about participating. And the numbers add up fast — 28,000+ lbs of organic waste diverted from landfill, and counting.
Your office's waste doesn't have to end up in a landfill. We made it simple so that it doesn't.
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Replenishing the Earth — One Office at a Time
When organic waste enters the compost stream instead of the landfill, it doesn't just disappear — it becomes something valuable. Composted materials improve soil health, return nutrients to the earth, reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers, and help mitigate the effects of drought. One tonne of composted organic material prevents roughly one-third of a tonne of CO2-equivalent from entering the atmosphere.
That's exactly what happens to the organic waste we collect from offices across Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge. It enters the compost stream through three pathways:
✓ The Region of Waterloo's composting facility in Guelph
✓ Local neighbourhood garden compost piles
✓ Kitchener Clean's own Worm Farm — where organic waste is converted into worm castings, a high-grade natural fertilizer
Nothing is wasted. Everything becomes something better.
Our Vision
A Waterloo Region where every office — from a 10-person startup to a 500-person corporate campus — has a simple, reliable way to keep organic waste out of the landfill. Where composting at work is as normal as composting at home. And where businesses can point to real numbers and say, "We did something about it."
Our Mission
To make office composting in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and the surrounding Waterloo Region so simple and effortless that any business can do it — regardless of size, industry, or prior sustainability experience. You handle your business. We handle the bins.
Our Goals
One million pounds of organic waste will be diverted from Waterloo Region landfills annually by 2030. Every office that joins gets us closer. Every pound diverted is a pound that doesn't become methane. And every business that participates proves that Waterloo Region companies walk their environmental talk.
WHY CHOOSE US
We only Provide Compost Program For Offices
Ontario Land Fills
Annual cumulative
2022
Canada/CO2 emissions per capita 14.95 metric tons
One ton of composted materials prevents 1/3 ton of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere
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UN SDG 15: Life on Land
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15: By enhancing soil biodiversity and fertility, composting supports the restoration of degraded lands and the conservation of natural habitats, aligning with the goal of protecting, restoring, and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems (SDG Target 15.1 and 15.5).
OFFICE COMPOST PROGRAM
Office Compostable Materials
From the Kitchen : Coffee grounds, filters, Tea bags, Used paper napkins, Pizza boxes, ripped into smaller pieces, Paper bags, either ripped or balled up, crumbs you sweep off your counters and floors, Plain cooked pasta, Plain cooked rice, Stale bread, Stale saltine crackers, Paper towel rolls, Stale cereal, and Used paper plates
From the Washrooms : Used facial tissues, Toilet paper rolls, and Hand paper towels.
From The Office: Bills and other documents you've shredded, Envelopes (minus the plastic window), Pencil shavings, Sticky notes, Business cards (as long as they're not glossy), and Receipts
From the Building Newspapers (shredded or torn into smaller pieces), Subscription cards from magazines, Leaves trimmed from houseplants, Dead houseplants and their soil, Flowers from floral arrangements, Natural potpourri and Ashes from the fireplace, barbecue grill, or outdoor fire pit.
About Kitchener Clean Inc. — The Company Behind the Program
The Office Compost Program is operated by Kitchener Clean — a family-owned commercial cleaning company that has served businesses across Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and the Waterloo Region since 2009.
Founded by Derrick Carroll and co-owned by Tori Savage, Kitchener Clean is built on the values of honesty, integrity, quality, and environmental responsibility. We are a certified Living Wage employer, a UL ECOLOGO® certified cleaning provider, and the most comprehensive commercial cleaning company in the Waterloo Region.
In addition to the Office Compost Program, Kitchener Clean offers:
Professional office cleaning (daily, weekly, or bi-weekly) across Kitchener, Waterloo & Cambridge
Janitorial services for offices, medical facilities, tech companies, and co-working spaces
Commercial deep cleaning, carpet steam cleaning, and floor care
Office Germ Protection and electrostatic disinfection
Warehouse, car park, and industrial cleaning
Exterior and interior window cleaning
To learn more about Kitchener Clean's full range of commercial cleaning services, visit kitchenerclean.com.
🧹 Kitchener Clean: Professional Office & Commercial Cleaning in Kitchener, Waterloo & Cambridge. Visit kitchenerclean.com for a free quote. (519) 513-3965.
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