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From Trash to Treasure: How Composting Helps Create a Healthier Community
Join Ryan Green, co-owner of Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting, to learn the importance of composting and its beneficial effects on the health of our community and local soils. This workshop will cover the basics of composting, how to compost at home and background on HTC's work over the last 10 years leading the charge on closing the loop in Gallatin Valley.
About Happy Trash Can & Ryan Green
Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting was started in 2016 by husband and wife duo: Ryan Green and Adrienne Huckabone. After years of work in the restaurant industry, small scale organic agriculture and working for the NYC Compost Project hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center, Ryan & Adrienne decided to bring food scrap focused composting to Adrienne's hometown of Bozeman. As the first company to bring this service to the community, HTC has spearheaded and led the charge in educating the public and scaling up organics recycling in Gallatin and Park County. Currently the team of 5 diverts over 3 million pounds of food scraps from local residents and businesses. Over the years they have partnered with major institutions like Bozeman Solid Waste, MSU & Bridger Bowl to help the city of Bozeman create a year round organics recycling program that accepts food scraps, increase diversion from dining halls and other venus on campus and processes material from the communities largest post consumer composting program at Bridger Bowl.
The work doesn't stop with diversion. HTC processes all collected material into local fertility and sells the finished compost back to local gardeners, Farmers and landscapers; thus "closing the loop". Many local farms like Chance Farm, Rathvinden, Bombus Botanics, 4 Daughters and many more help HTC complete their mission to connect the community to local agricultural production via their organic waste stream and build local soil health. HTC has been voted "Best Green Business" in the Bozeman Choice awards for many years, named the "Recycler of the Year" by Recycle Montana and the "Small Compost Manufacturer of the year" by the United States Composting Council in 2026. The company is celebrating 10 years of business in 226 and looks forward to working to increase composting locally and afar.