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March 10, 2026 | DANAfter a long journey, Full Sun Compost finds a home in Wells Park
Full Sun Compost, the pickup service that since the fall of 2024 has been urgently hunting for a new home, has moved into a new complex in Wells Park that promises to help expand its roster of commercial clients.
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November 27, 2025 | KOATNM expert shares simple ways to make Thanksgiving greener
Composting involves using food scraps or yard waste that turns into nutrient-rich soil. Feibelman mentioned a local business called Little Green Bucket, which collects food waste, ensuring it doesn’t end up in the dump.
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June 5, 2025 | DANFrom crisis to compost hub: Little Green Bucket eyes a new chapter
Little Green Bucket didn’t launch with a fleet of trucks or a slick saturation marketing campaign. Back in 2018, it was just a tiny startup with a few green pails, a table at the Downtown Growers’ Market, and a desire to collect compost from area homes.
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April 16, 2025 | The Paper.Where Food Waste Doesn’t Go to Waste
Composting company seeks community help in acquiring new facility Little Green Bucket owner Brad Weikel started his environmentally conscious Albuquerque composting company from the ground up, and six years later, he is seeking community investments to help grow its proposed new facility.
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April 9, 2025 | The Paper.City of Albuquerque launches new food waste composting project
The City of Albuquerque is starting a project to collect residential food waste and compost it. The food waste will be collected at McKinley Community Center, and local hauler Little Green Bucket will take the compostable material to a commercial compost facility, where it will be turned into finished compost.
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May 22, 2024 | EngadgetThe best way to compost your food scraps. . . or, why I pay someone else to do it for me.
The EPA estimates each person in the US sends 200 pounds of food to the landfill each year where it disgorges methane and contributes to climate change. Composted, those scraps turn into soil-feeding, carbon-capturing humus instead. If that sounds like the better option, you have a couple choices: compost at home, with or without a machine to help you out, or let
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December 27, 2023 | The Paper.The business of being green
With widespread pollution as a backdrop, some local businesses are doing what they can to fight back. Supporting sustainable businesses in New Mexico is more important than ever as the state struggles with air pollution and missed environmental goals.
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December 5, 2023 | KRQEAlbuquerque testing food composting with new program
Going green is a long term focus for the City of Albuquerque that now includes a pilot project testing food composting. This comes as part of the city’s Climate Action Plan with the goal of composting food and reducing greenhouse gases. “The Food Scrap Pilot is an exciting program that involves two different scales. A commercial kitchen
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November 10, 2023 | KRQEWhat should you do with your old pumpkins?
With Halloween 2023 in the rearview and November now almost halfway over, many are looking for ways to get rid of their pumpkins. Whether they are carved, mushy, rotten, or you are simply looking to swap from fall to winter decor, there are a lot of ways to give pumpkins a second chance.
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October 26, 2022 | The Paper.Albuquerque’s Best Contributors to the Community
There are organizations that simply make Albuquerque, Albuquerque and nowhere else. We let you choose the subcategories under this umbrella by vote and you came through handsomely. All of these local entities and individuals contribute to the flavor of this city, representing ABQ and making it home for us all.
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