LFC Compost (Local Food Cycling)
Fukuoka, Japan · Operator: ローカルフードサイクリング株式会社
Overview
A bag-type home composter from Fukuoka-based Local Food Cycling, whose founder Yuiko Taira has promoted kitchen-waste composting for over 20 years, linking food-loss reduction and local soil-building through a 'nutrient cycle within a 2 km radius'.
Citizen participation
Households turn kitchen scraps into compost in a bag-type composter, then use the finished compost at local markets, with farmers, or in balcony gardens, in a citizen-driven cycle.
Operating model
A social business selling bag-type composters and base material, supported by an online community and workshops.
Impact
Diverts household food waste from incineration to reduce food loss, and spreads a circular system that reconnects city residents with local farming through compost.
Crops
- vegetables
- herbs
Scale
福岡市発。半径2kmの栄養循環をコンセプトにバッグ型家庭用コンポストを全国に普及。
In the media（1）
Web articles and features that cover this case.
Sources（1）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
Related cases
Zaimokuza Community Compost Project
JPKamakura, Japan
A community-composting pilot launched in Kamakura's Zaimokuza district in 2023, where residents bring food scraps to a worm composter built from scrap wood, generating neighbourly exchange and resource circulation through composting.
prtimes.jp+1
Vegeta-Kurun (Kanazawa Food-Waste Circulation System)
JPKanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Kanazawa City's food-waste recycling loop that collects citizen-made compost at neighborhood points and uses it at community farms. It advances food-loss reduction and organic-resource circulation through citizen participation.
www4.city.kanazawa.lg.jp+1
Ogo Bamboo Project, Ogo-cho, Kita Ward, Kobe
JPKobe (北区), Japan
A community group based in Ogo-cho, Kita Ward, Kobe, that since 2019 has been clearing neglected bamboo groves and putting the bamboo to use. Left alone, bamboo encroaches on fields, degrades the landscape and shelters crop-raiding animals, so continuous cutting is needed to return the hills to open, managed satoyama. Under the motto "tasty and fun", bamboo and shoots are upcycled instead of discarded — into domestic menma, bamboo craft and the transmission of those skills, and fertiliser made from bamboo chips. Its bamboo-chip compost is used in the Kobe Compost Project's public workshops.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+3
Junkan Seikatsu Lab Cardboard-Box Composting (Fukuoka)
JPFukuoka, Japan
A Fukuoka-based citizen group that has researched and spread the 'cardboard-box compost' method—decomposing kitchen waste using only microbes—for over two decades, turning household food scraps into compost within the neighborhood to build a 2-km-radius nutrient cycle.
jun-namaken.com+2