Traverse City's Bike-Powered Compost Collection Service We are a residential compost collection service that uses bicycles with trailers to haul food scraps from your kitchen to local composting sites. At Carter's Compost, we believe that the resilience and beauty of our community is inseparable from the health of the land we live on. Transforming our food waste into fertile compost is one small way we can collectively nurture the land in the midst of global environmental crisis, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and sequester carbon in the soil.