Partner Highlight: Elements Compost
Oct 30th 2025
Elements Mountain Compost, a woman and LGBTQ-owned business, is a compost hauler and processor based in Salida, Colorado. They work with rural businesses and residents to reduce their carbon footprint by diverting food waste, yard waste, and compostable products. In 2024, Elements permitted the first Class 1 commercial composting facility under Colorado’s new regulatory framework, and they are expanding rapidly to fill a void in organic waste diversion throughout the south-central part of the state.
Elements joined the Eco-Products CHD program in 2024 to ensure its rural customer base has access to certified compostable products. The program has helped Elements educate its customers, reduce contamination from noncompostable look-alikes, and create a cleaner finished soil product for use in gardens, landscaping, and agriculture. Additionally, Eco-Products provided Elements with a matching grant from a BPI program, which funded new truck decals to enhance community education about compost collection services and acceptable materials.
Learn more about Elements Compost here!
In 2021, Eco-Products initiated the Composter, Hauler, Distributor (CHD) as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. Every year we have a goal to welcome five new CHDs that qualify as economically or socially disadvantaged businesses. We are proud to report that four CHDs in this classification were officially onboarded in 2024, including Elements Compost.