The Problem
Building a sustainable future.
The U.S. wastes about a third of the food it produces, and surplus food generates close to 6% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. New Jersey threw away roughly 1.48 million tons of food in a single year, and food waste is the largest single component of the state’s municipal solid waste. Composting offers a powerful solution, but government inefficiencies and high service costs have held back statewide action. We believe affordable composting is the key to making sustainable waste solutions accessible to everyone.
Our solution
What Torus is doing about it.
Torus takes on this problem directly. We give households a bucket and compostable bags, then handle regular curbside pickups so food scraps never reach a landfill. Everything we collect goes to Trenton Renewables, where it becomes clean biogas instead of methane.
By keeping the service free and youth-led, we remove the two biggest barriers to composting: cost and hassle. Every bucket we collect is proof that real climate action can be simple, local, and open to everyone. Learn more about our story or see where we serve.