The Urban Canopy is a farm on the South Side of Chicago working to create a more sustainable, nutritious and equitable food cycle.

The Urban Canopy’s on-site composting service gives Chicagoland wedding couples, caterers, florists, and venues the opportunity to host a more sustainable event by collecting their leftover food scraps, florals, and compostable disposables.

Here is how we can help:

• We supply, deliver and set up large containers the day of your event. These containers look like standard, [yellow] trash bins and are equipped with compostable liners.

• We provide staff members at the event to monitor the compost bins and assure compliance with the waste sorting.

• We supply signage listing what is / is not compostable and attach these to the lids of the containers.

• We can also provide Recycling Services via 35 gallon rolling totes. These containers look like standard, [blue] recycling bins. We accept glass, aluminum, paper, cardboard, #1-5 Plastics and more.

• When the event has concluded, we will transport the containers to one of our processing sites, where the compostable materials gets turned into healthy soil.

• We also have a variety of compostable utensils, plates, cups and other common party supplies available for purchase.