Wesleyan composts food scraps from Usdan, Summerfields, Bon Appetit cafes, WesWings, Red & Black Cafe, Story and Soil, several campus buildings, many campus residences, and several offices. Click the expandable links below to learn more about composting or download printable handouts for dorms/residences and offices.
To learn more about how composting works on campus, please visit our waste management page.
There are several compost bins in public locations that accept ALL food waste and ALL containers/napkins provided by Bon Appetit (except for sushi containers, which are trash).
These stations accept only food waste (NO meat or dairy) and ALL containers/napkins provided by Bon Appetit (except for sushi containers, which are trash).
Hi/Lo-Rise Apartments (lower courtyard between Hi and Lo Rise facing Traverse Square)
The Bayit (157 Church St. at back door)
Allbritton (next to Espwesso patio)
200 Church St. (near the parking lot between 200 Church and ADP)
The Butterfields (by Summerfields patio)
Brainerd Ave. and Home Ave. (53 Home backyard)
Exley (Blue Earth carts at loading dock along Pine St. against the wall next to dumpsters)
Warren St. and Fountain Ave. (35 Fountain backyard)
Vine St. and Knowles Ave. (behind 19 Vine)
WestCo (in the courtyard near WestCo/Foss 1 by Weshop entrance)
Hewitt (outside Lounge on the side of Hewitt facing the circle)
344 Washington St. (backyard)
Full/Writing House (202 Washington St. side yard)
College of the Environment (284 High St. backyard)
Indoor - Student Residences
Dorms (during academic year only): 200 Church, Bennet, Butterfields A, B, and C, Clark, Writers' Block, Nics, X House, and WestCo kitchens and/or lounges; ask yourEnvironmental Fellow for location details
Many program houses (ask your HM if you don't have composting at your program house and would like to!)
To request a bucket for an office or residence, fill out thebucket request form. Please be advised that the bucket supply changes with the season and new buckets are not always available immediately.
Compost participants receive a bucket and instructions for collection and are responsible for emptying the bucket into thenearest black composting bin.
Residence Hall residents: Environmental Fellows will remove the compost bucket from your building. If you have a compost jar that you will not want to keep, please notify your Environmental Fellow so that we can reuse them.
Woodframe/Program House/Fauver/High Rise/Low Rise/apartment residents: Please bring your compost bucket to the nearest backyard black composting bin (do NOT empty) no later than May 17th. Visit the campus composting map if you’ve forgotten where to bring your compost. Please do not leave bins at your back door.