KoR – KôR Collect

KoR Collect – Empowering Food Waste Diversion In Every Community

From households to businesses, restaurants, markets, schools and beyond, KôR unites community partners in a shared goal. Pound by pound, bucket by bucket, our grassroots approach aims to address the millions of tons of wasted food sent to landfills each year. At KôR we build tools that empower haulers and the communities they serve, creating connections to make food waste diversion successful at any scale.

Search

Enter your address to find a KôR Hauler in your community. Haulers are local businesses leading the way in organic waste diversion, using the KôR Network to bring you the best experience!

Join

Pick a curbside collection service to fit your needs. How often do you need pick-ups? What size of a collection bin? You decide. Setup automatic bill pay, edit pick-up frequency, and monitor diversion amounts.

Collect

Your hauler will drop a collection bin at your door and place you on the route. Divert kitchen scraps and other organic waste to your new bin, then place it curbside the night before pick-up.

Divert

Your KôR Hauler collects your waste and leaves a clean bin. Great, you’ve just diverted! Your scraps are off to a community garden, local farm for feed, or organic waste facility to become nitrogen rich compost!

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Oneonta, NY

Worms Waste Not Compost

The KôR Compost Gnome

AI For Compost

Hartwick & Cooperstown, NY

Two Fox Farms

Why Divert With KôR?

KôR makes change possible. We give micro haulers the tools they need to launch a successful, scalable food waste diversion business that promotes sustainable change while offering clients the most responsive, personalized experience possible. KôR members can track and analyze their diversion efforts and communicate seamlessly with their hauler.

Food waste is the #1 material in landfills making up over 24% of all inputs.

Food decomposing in a landfill creates methane, a gas that is 28 times worse than carbon dioxide.

Approximately 40% of all household trash is food waste.

$1,800 is the average amount wasted per household in food sent to the landfill each year.

Use for Good

I believe that organic waste has potential for good. Let’s turn my food scraps into livestock feed or nutrient rich compost so local farms can produce more healthy food.

Support Local Businesses

I want to support my local hauler’s business. Let’s prop up entrepreneurs who aim to reduce green house gas emissions by diverting my organic waste from the local landfill.

Adopt Home Collection

I want to divert my food waste but don’t have room for a compost pile of my own. Let’s use KôR Collect to meet my personal pick-up needs, diverting food scraps directly at my doorstep.

Reduce carbon footprint

I need to reduce my carbon footprint by diverting my methane producing organic waste. Let’s join the KôR Collect movement to keep my food waste out of the landfill!

Embrace Behavioral Change

I know real change occurs by embracing new habits. Let’s use KôR’s member dashboard, including prompts and reporting, to track, inform and improve my diversion efforts.

Join a Community

I want to build a community that is committed to making a local change for the greater good. Let’s join the KôR Collect movement and redefine food waste for the future.

Organic Waste

Organic waste is full or nutrients...

Turned to Compost

Diverted from the landfill and turned to compost, organic waste uses those nutrients to...

Back to the farm.

give back to the farm, to provide for plants and trees the necessities to grow healthy nutrients for the next generation.

Our Story of Food Waste

IT STARTED BY LOOKING IN MY TRASH.

I run a small scale pasture pork farm and had been collecting organic throw offs from local markets—veggies and fruits—to feed our herd. It was good for the pigs and cut feed cost. The thought of diversion hadn’t occurred to me. It was just common sense. About a year later, I began looking at my household’s food waste which for the most part was going into the trash. Vegetable scraps, apple and banana peels, eggs, cheese, milk, bread ends, pizza crusts, etc., we began collecting about 2-4 pounds a day. It wasn’t really wasted food but food scraps from meal prep or other items humans don’t regularly consume. Turns out my household isn’t unique. U.S. households throw out over 60,000 tons of food waste EVERY DAY! That is over 2,300 full semi loads. The data and my own experience made it clear—we have a huge opportunity to up-cycle, recycle, just simply use food to its full potential. And the seed for KôR was planted.

J. Salzman – Founder of KôR