Turn your food scraps into living soil — not landfill waste! Pickled Compost provides a simple, fortnightly food scrap collection service for Wairarapa businesses and households*(South Wairarapa households only)*, using a Bokashi fermentation system that allows all food scraps (including meat, bones, seafood, and dairy) to be safely diverted from landfill and returned to the our local land / whenua. 🪣 Small Kitchen System $30/month (from $7.50/week) 1 × 20L bucket Fortnightly collection Free Bokashi starter included Ideal for low-volume small households (1-3 per household) 🪣🪣 Standard Kitchen System $50/month (from $12.50/week) 2 × 20L buckets Fortnightly collection Free Bokashi starter included Better capacity for commercial kitchens such as cafes / small restaurants or larger households (4+ per household) 🛢️ Business Wheelie Bin System (120L) $85/month (from $21.25/week) 120L wheelie bin system Fortnightly collection Free Bokashi starter included Designed for businesses / organisations with consistently larger food scrap volumes i.e. schools, retirement villages and busier restaurants What can go in the system? All food scraps, including: Meat and bones Dairy Cooked food Seafood and shells Fruit and vegetable scraps No need to separate like traditional composting. 🔁 How it works Place food scraps into your Pickled Compost bucket / bin system We collect and replace your bucket or bin fortnightly Food scraps are returned to farms, gardens, and soil systems in the region *Why limited to South Wairarapa only for residential? We are currently operating at a small, local scale to ensure reliable collection routes and high-quality processing of all food scraps into soil-building materials. 📍 Outside South Wairarapa? We are currently not offering residential pickup outside this area, but we are building toward wider rollout across the Wairarapa. Please register your interest for future expansion into your area.
