Almonte’s Just Good Compost expanding to Carleton Place [Video]

For two years now, Will Affleck has been going door to door in Almonte collecting scrap food.

“Anything that they eat, we can take,” he says.

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Affleck is the founder of Just Good Compost, an initiative started to foster recovery from mental illness and provide jobs to vulnerable populations.

“I think we started with three or four households. My mother was one, my mother’s neighbor was the other.”

But after being featured on CTV News two years ago, Just Good Compost has seen a composting boom in the Ottawa Valley.

“Right now, we’re over 300 households, and five businesses and three schools are all signed up in Almonte, and we’ve just started working in Carleton Place.”

The Town of Almonte does not have a green bin program. Affleck says much of his business’s growth has been organic.

“I think it’s fantastic. It’s one of those …